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Fernando Q. Gouvêa

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Gouvêa grew up in São Paulo, the son of a lawyer and banker, and was educated there in an English-language primary school and then at the
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in 1983 for continuing graduate study in number theory, and completed his doctorate there in 1987; his dissertation, titled
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Math through the Ages: A Gentle History for Teachers and Others
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number theorist
historian of mathematics
Lester R. Ford Award
Mathematical Association of America
Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem
Colby College
Waterville, Maine
Colégio Bandeirantes de São Paulo
University of São Paulo
Harvard University
Barry Mazur
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario
Keith Devlin
Carus Mathematical Monographs
"A Marvelous Proof" by Fernando Q. Gouvêa
Beckenbach Book Prize




Faculty directory
Colby College




Fernando Gouvêa interviewed by Ken Ross
Fernando Q. Gouvêa
Mathematics Genealogy Project

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