Fernando Q. Gouvêa

Fernando Quadros Gouvêa is a Brazilian number theorist and historian of mathematics. He is the Carter Professor of Mathematics at Colby College in Waterville, Maine.[1] He won the Lester R. Ford Award of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) in 1995 for his exposition of Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.[2] He also won the Beckenbach Book Prize of the MAA in 2007 for his book with William P. Berlinghoff, Math through the Ages: A Gentle History for Teachers and Others (Oxton House, 2002; 2nd ed., 2014).[3]

Gouvêa grew up in São Paulo, the son of a lawyer and banker, and was educated there in an English-language primary school and then at the Colégio Bandeirantes de São Paulo. He earned a bachelor's degree from the University of São Paulo[4], and then a master's degree in 1981 under the supervision of César Polcino Milies.[1][4] He moved to Harvard University in 1983 for continuing graduate study in number theory,[4] and completed his doctorate there in 1987; his dissertation, titled Arithmetic of p-adic Modular Forms, was supervised by Barry Mazur.[1][5]

He became a faculty member at the University of São Paulo, took a visiting position at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario in 1990, and was brought to Colby College by Keith Devlin, who had recently been hired as department chair there.[4]

He is the editor of the Carus Mathematical Monographs book series, and of MAA Reviews, an online book review service published by the MAA.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Faculty directory, Colby College, retrieved 2017-04-22.
  2. ^ "A Marvelous Proof" by Fernando Q. Gouvêa, Lester R. Ford award citation, Mathematical Association of America, 1995, retrieved 2017-04-22.
  3. ^ Beckenbach Book Prize, Mathematical Association of America, retrieved 2017-04-22.
  4. ^ a b c d Fernando Gouvêa interviewed by Ken Ross, MAA Centennial Interviews, January 6, 2011, retrieved 2017-04-22.
  5. ^ Fernando Q. Gouvêa at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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