Luís Saraiva

Associate Professor, retired
Department of Mathematics, FCUL

Research Interests

History of Mathematics, 19th and 20th centuries;
History of Portuguese Mathematics since the 1772 University reform;
History of the Teaching of Mathematics in Portugal since the 1772 University reform;
HIstory of Mathematics in Brasil in the 1772-1822 period;
History of Mathematical journals;
History of the East-West scientific relations.

Projects

As coordinator

History of Mathematical Sciences: Portugal and East Asia
History of Luso-Brazilian Mathematics

Publications (selection)

Étienne Bézout in Portugal: the Reform of the Portuguese University and Beyond (1772-1838), Historia Mathematica vol. 42, 1, 2015, pp. 14-46.
José Anastácio da Cunha (1744-1787), CIM Bulletin, 38-39, 2017, pp. 40-45.
Os matemáticos portugueses nos primeiros congressos ibéricos para o progresso das ciências (1921-1932), Actas do 7º Encontro Luso-Brasileiro de História da Matemática, volume II, SPM, 2018,
pp. 457-479.
Os Principios Mathematicos de José Anastácio da Cunha (1744-1787), Actas do IV Congresso Iberoamericano de História da Educação Matemática, Universidade de Múrcia, Centro de Estudos
sobre a Memória Educativa, 2018, pp. 271-280.
O trabalho de Francisco Gomes Teixeira (1851-1933) em equações com derivadas parciais, Anais do XIIIº Seminário Nacional de História da Matemática, SBHMat, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brasil, 2019,
pp. 53-79.
O início da actividade científica de Francisco Gomes Teixeira (1851-1933), Actas do 4º Encontro Luso-Brasileiro de História da Matemática, EDUFRN, Natal, 2005, pp161-176.
The Beginnings of the Royal Military Academy of Rio de Janeiro, Revista Brasileira de História da Matemática, vol.7 (2007), nº 13, pp.19-41.
The Jesuit mathematicians of the Portuguese Assistancy and the Portuguese historians of mathematics (1819-1940), Proceedings of the International Meeting “History of Mathematical Sciences: Portugal and East Asia III. The Jesuits, the Padroado and East Asan Science (1552-1773)” (Editores L. Saraiva, C. Jami), World Scientific, London/Singapore, 2008, pp. 1-31.
Mathematics in the Memoirs of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences in the19th Century, Historia Mathematica vol. 35, 4 (2008), pp. 302-326
Manoel Ferreira de Araujo Guimarães (1777-1838): From the Navy Royal Academy to the Royal Military Academy of Rio de Janeiro, Revista Brasileira de História da Matemática., vol. 11 (2011), nº 21 , pp. 77-106
Mathematical Analysis in Portugal in the Period 1772-1822, “Aventure de l’analyse de Fermat a Borel- Mélanges en l’honneur de Christian Gilain” (Editor Suzanne Féry), Editions Universitaires de Lorraine, Presses Universitaires de Nancy, 2012, pp. 301-331.
A Década Prodigiosa da Matemática Portuguesa: os Começos da Sociedade Portuguesa de Matemática (1936-1945), Revista Brasileira de História da Matemática, Vol. 11 (2012), nº 23, pp. 73-98.
A Tradução de Manuais de Matemática nos inícios da Academia Real Militar do Rio de Janeiro, Anais do 6º Encontro Luso-Brasileiro de História da Matemática, SBHMat, Natal, 2014, pp. 93-137.
A Decisive Journal in Portuguese Mathematics: Gomes Teixeira’s Jornal de Sciencias Mathematicas e Astronomicas (1877-1905), « L'émergence de la presse mathématique en Europe au 19ème siècle. Formes éditoriales et études de cas », Christian Gerini & Norbert Verdier (Eds.), Collège Publication, Oxford, 2014, pp. 67-95.
Étienne Bézout in Portugal: the Reform of the Portuguese University and Beyond (1772-1838), Historia Mathematica vol. 42, 1 (2015), pp. 14-46

Scientific Societies and other institutions (selection)

International Commission on the History of Mathematics - Member of the Executive Commission
National History of Mathematics Seminar - General Coordinator
Scientific and Cultural Center of Macau, Member of the Scientific Commission
International Academy of the History of Science - Corresponding member