Abstract:
The aim of this thesis is to study the personality of Francisco Gomes Teixeira as it emerged during our research, namely: the man, the scientist and the pedagogue.
The work contains three Parts, each of them divided into several chapters. In the first part, we attempt a characterization of Gomes Teixeira?s profile: as a student, within his family life, as a citizen, as a politician, as a master, as a celebrated international mathematician and as a historian. In this part, we also present the results of our research about the Jornal de Sciencias Mathematicas e Astronomicas and about the Annaes Scientificos ad Academia Polytechnica. Finally, in this part, we give a global view of the scientific activities of Gomes Teixeira, as an analyst, as a geometer and as a historian.
The second part of this work refers to some mathematical subjects of Gomes Teixeira well known textbook Curso de Analyse Infinitesimal ? Calculo Differencial, in a scientific, pedagogical and historical approach. In this part, we also include one database built from the scientific remains (Spolium) gathered by Gomes Teixeira during his academic career and a second database referring to the Traité des courbes spéciales remarquables planes et gauches.
In the third part we present the conclusions of our research.
The thesis integrates four annexes, which we named A, B, C and D. These annexes give some illustrations and some documentation for many of the statements we make in the thesis.