Alvarus Thomaz

Alvaro Thomaz, Alvarus Thomaz, or Álvaro Tomás (fl. 1500–1521) was a Portuguese mathematician in the tradition of calculatores. He is known from his book Liber de triplici motu proportionibus annexis magistri published in 1509 which examined the work of the Merton College calculators of England.

Biography

Thomaz was born in Lisbon and studied at the University of Paris, where he later taught between 1510 and 1521. He studied medicine alongside mathematics and obtained a doctorate in 1518. He taught for several years at the , where his colleagues included the Scot Robert Caubraith. During this period, he was closely associated with the Spanish scholar Juan de Celaya, who later taught at the College of Santa Barbara. Little is known of Thomaz's life after 1521, with no records of his subsequent activities or date of death.