Alberto Dou Mas de Xaxàs (21 December 1915,
Olot
Olot (; ) is the capital city of the ''Catalonia/Comarques, comarca'' of Garrotxa, in the Province of Girona, Catalonia, Spain. The city is known for its natural landscape, including four volcanoes scattered around the city center. The municipali ...
–10 April 2009,
San Cugat del Vallés) was a Spanish
Jesuit
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and mathematician.
He fought on the Nationalist side in the
Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil War () was a military conflict fought from 1936 to 1939 between the Republican faction (Spanish Civil War), Republicans and the Nationalist faction (Spanish Civil War), Nationalists. Republicans were loyal to the Left-wing p ...
.
In 1960, he was elected president of the
Royal Spanish Mathematical Society
The Royal Spanish Mathematical Society ( Spanish: ''Real Sociedad Matemática Española'', RSME) is the main professional society of Spanish mathematicians and represents Spanish mathematics within the European Mathematical Society (EMS) and th ...
.
Selected works
* ''Fundamentos de Matemáticas.''
* ''Fundamentos de Física.''
* ''The Mathematics Genealogy project.''
* ''Las teorías del movimiento de proyectiles y paralelas de Aristóteles a Einstein.''
* ''La verdad en la Matemática axiomática.''
* ''La mutua influencia entre Matemática y Física.''
o-writer* ''Los Cuadritejidos planos.''
* ''The corollarium II to the proposition XXIII of Saccheri's Euclides.''
* ''Las Matemáticas en la España de los Austrias.''
* ''Método de máximos y mínimos.''
* ''Los primeros testimonios del Nuevo Testamento.''
o-writer* ''Rang der ebenen 4-Gwebe.''
* ''Upper Estimate of Potential Elastic Energy of a Cylinder.''
* ''Logical and Historical Remarks on Saccheri's Geometry.''
* ''Las derivadas segundas del potencial del volumen.''
* ''De la verdad a la validez en Geometría (1733-1871).''
References
20th-century Spanish mathematicians
1915 births
2009 deaths
20th-century Spanish Jesuits
Spanish military personnel of the Spanish Civil War (National faction)
People from Olot
Jesuit scientists
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