Omar Catunda’s Mathematical analysis course

a peculiar appropriation of modern mathematical analysis in Brazil

Authors

  • Eliene Barbosa Lima Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz
  • André Luis Mattedi Dias Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.53727/rbhc.v3i2.351

Keywords:

history of mathematics, modern mathematics, athematics analysis in the Brazil, Omar Catunda

Abstract

We did a comparative analysis of Omar Catunda’s Curso de Análise Matemática with William Anthony Granville’s Differential and Integral Calculus, Luigi Fantappiè’s Curso de Análise Matemática and Jean Dieudonné’s Foundations of Modern Analysis in order to show how he particularly appropriated modern mathematical analysis and configured himself as important agent of the institutionalization of modern mathematics in Brazil.

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Published

2010-12-02

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