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, Argentina. His efforts to promote

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research in Argentina were less successful.http://publicaciones.dc.uba.ar/Publications/2012/CR12a/MonteiroPionero.pdf After his undergraduate studies at the

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(completed in 1930), Monteiro obtained a PhD at Sorbonne in 1936 under the advisement of

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with a thesis in

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. In Portugal Monteiro was the main founder of the journal '' Portugaliae Mathematica'' in 1937. In 1945 Monteiro moved to Brazil. There are two versions of why Monteiro left Portugal. The first version is that Monteiro and other Portuguese mathematicians like

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fell foul of Salazar's regime for their political beliefs; some, like Gomes, were imprisoned; others, like Monteiro, were simply denied employment and practically forced to emigrate. The second version, supported by Monteiro's written documents, is that he was tired of the problems created by his fellow scholars that were blocking his attempts to modernize Mathematics in Portuguese universities.

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was one of Monteiro's Brazilian students. Monteiro's impact on Argentinean mathematics has been compared to that of Julio Rey Pastor.

Monographs

* Monteiro, Antóni
"Sur les algèbres de Heyting symétriques."
Portugaliae mathematica 39.1–4 (1980): 1–237.

Monographs

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