scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1009611
The author discusses three periods of mathematical development in Portugal, Spain, Argentina, Brazil and other countries of Latin America. The first period (1780--1820) deals with the mathematics for solving problems in geography and navigation. The most remarkable mathematician of that time was Joseph de Mendoza y Ríos (1762--1816), a naval officer who became a leading expert in the application of mathematics and astronomy to navigation. His navigation tables (London 1804) introduced notable advances into the question of locating the position of a ship at sea. He was Foreign Fellow of the Royal Society London, the Académie des Sciences in Paris and of other academies. The second and third period (1850--1914) is related to the transmission of mathematical knowledge to problems in engineering. Descriptive geometry and graphical statics became important. The authorities of some Polytechnic schools in those countries had contact to leading European mathematical communities, e.g. Francisco Gomes Teixeira, who became director of the new Polytechnic school in Porto. He produced valuable research work on series expansions and interpolation. His treatise on curves became a standard text. Also the rôle of the intermediate mathematical journals of the Iberian world for the development of mathematics in those countries is described. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0862.00010].
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