Francisco Gomes Teixeira

Francisco Gomes Teixeira (28 January 1851– 8 February 1933) was a Portuguese mathematician and first rector of the University of Porto.

Biography Francisco Gomes Teixeira studied in the University of Coimbra, earning a degree in mathematics in 1874 and a doctorate a year later. His thesis was related to integration of second order partial differential equations. He joined the University of Coimbra as a member of the faculty in 1876. (Divo Antonio is Latin for St. Anthony. Olissipóna was the ancient name for Lisbon. Gomes Teixeira wrote a 1931 book Santo António de Lisboa (história, tradição e lenda) and a 1926 book Santuários de montahna (impressões de viagens.)

Honors and awards His Tratado de las Curvas Especiales Notables won an award in 1899 from the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences. A 3-volume French translation (with additions) was published in 1908 and 1909 as Traité des Courbes Spéciales Remarquables Planes et Gauches. He received in 1917 the prix Binoux d'histoire des sciences from the French Academy of Sciences.

Gomes Teixeira received honorary doctorates from the University of Madrid and the University of Toulouse.

Eponymous tributes

Praça de Gomes Teixeira (Gomes Teixeira Square), Porto Rua Professor Doutor Francisco Gomes Teixeira, Porto Rua Professor Doutor Francisco Gomes Teixeira em Carnaxide, Oeiras Rua Francisco Gomes Teixeira em Setúbal, Setúbal Sala Gomes Teixeira: Piso 4 Edifíco da Reitoria da Universidade do Porto Agrupamento de Escolas Gomes Teixeira-Praça da Galiza, 4150-344 Porto Escola básica dos 2.º e 3.º ciclos Gomes Teixeira - Armamar approximate location of the statue of Dr. Gomes Teixeira in the village of São Cosmado from Google Street View

Selected publications. translated into French from the Spanish version but with revisions and extensive additions. Re-published in the Obras sobre Matemática, volumes IV, V et VII, 1908–1915; Chelsea Publishing Co, New York, 1971; Éditions Jacques Gabay, Paris, 1995. , vol. I, 1904; vol. II, 1906; vol. III, 1906; vol. IV, 1908; vol. V, 1909; vol. VI, 1912; vol. VII, 1915.