Open AccessThe Work of the Mathematician Leopoldo Nachbin (1922-1993) from FNFi
Author(s) -
Clóvis Pereira da Silva
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
revista brasileira de história da matemática/revista brasileira de história da matemática
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2675-7079
pISSN - 1519-955X
DOI - 10.47976/rbhm2019v19n38183-103
Subject(s) - portuguese , period (music) , competition (biology) , classics , sociology , economic history , mathematics education , mathematics , history , philosophy , ecology , linguistics , biology , aesthetics
In this paper we discuss the professional activity of Leopoldo Nachbin (1922-1993) in the period in which he worked at National Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Brazil (FNFi/UB, in Portuguese) until his retirement by Institute of Mathematics of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (IM/UFRJ, in Portuguese). We identify the influence played by some mathematicians such as G. Mammana (1893-1980), L. Schwartz (1915-2002), A. Monteiro (1907-1980), A. Weil (1906-1998), J. Dieudonné (1906-1992), M. Stone (1903-1989), and A. A. Albert (1905-1972) in the professional training of L. Nachbin. We also address the serious difficulties he encountered in the Mathematics Department of FNFi when he was entered in the competition, opened in 1950, for the post of full Professor (Professor Catedrático) of Mathematics and Superior Analysis of FNFi. We emphasize in the paper, that the period from 1947 to the 1960s marks the most creative and productive phase in terms of scientific research in the academic life of L. Nachbin.