__NOTOC__ Rodolfo Ferreira Dias Guimarães (4 January 1866 – 9 July 1918) was a Portuguese army officer and a leading

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. Rodolfo Guimarães attained the rank of

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, and taught at the Army School. Rodolfo Guimarães was born in

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in 1866, the son of Augusto Dias Guimarães and Teresa Amélia Ferreira Dias, who, by his own account, made a great deal of sacrifice to ensure he had access to good education. He enrolled at the Lisbon Polytechnic School in 1883. Guimarães published his first two papers on mathematics while still a student, in 1885. Early in his research career he published papers on geometry, but from 1900 onward he was mainly concerned with the history of Portuguese mathematics. His seminal work, ''Les Mathématiques en Portugal au XIX^e Siècle'', published that year, was a groundbreaking bibliography of Portuguese mathematical works according to the norms of the 1889 International Congress of Bibliography of Mathematical Sciences. Its first edition earned a favourable review from

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. By compiling lists of existing works and reprinting rare papers, Guimarães had an important role in the preservation of mathematical works connected with leading Portuguese mathematicians, chief among them

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whom he considered the most outstanding Portuguese mathematician; Nunes was the subject of a considerable number of papers authored by Guimarães.

Distinctions

National orders

PRT Military Order of Aviz - Officer BAR

Officer of the

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PRT Order of Saint James of the Sword - Officer BAR

Officer of the

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Foreign orders

Knight Cross of the

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Knight's Cross of the

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(Spain) * Cross of the Order of Military Merit, with White Decoration (Spain) * Palmes academiques Officier ribbon

Officer of Public Instruction of the

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(France) * ROM Order of the Star of Romania 1877 Comm BAR

Commander of the

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(Romania)

References

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