Miguel de Guzman

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Miguel de Guzmán Ozámiz (born January 12, 1936 in Cartagena , † April 14, 2004 in Madrid ) was a Spanish mathematician ( harmonic analysis ) and mathematics didactic .

His father was a seaman and died in the Spanish Civil War , so that the mother raised the five children under difficult conditions. After graduating from high school in 1952, De Guzmán first studied in Bilbao (where he had moved with his mother from Madrid) to become an engineer, but broke off and intended to become a Jesuit, for which he began to study humanities at their universities. He continued studying philosophy in Munich with a degree in 1961 and then studied mathematics and philosophy at the University of Complutense Madrid with a degree in 1965. He received his doctorate in mathematics in 1968 from the University of Chicago under Alberto Calderón (Singular Integral Operators with Generalized Homogeneity ). He also studied there with Antoni Zygmund . From 1969 he was at the Autonomous University of Madrid , where he became a professor, and then professor at the Complutense University. In 1971 he separated amicably from the Jesuits and married.

He dealt with singular integral operators and differentiation of integrals, later with stability and control of ordinary differential equations, geometric measure theory and fractals and with tensegrity . In particular, however, he devoted himself to the renewal of mathematics teaching at school and university. He wrote school books and popular science books on mathematics.

In 1999 he founded the ESTALMAT (Estímulo del talento matemático) project to promote young mathematicians. In 1996 he chaired the International Congress on Mathematical Education in Seville. He was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians 1998 in Berlin (contribution with Bernard R. Hodgson, Aline Robert, Vinicio Villani: Difficulties in the passage from secondary to tertiary education)

Guzmán was a member of the Royal Spanish Academy of Sciences from 1983 . From 1991 to 1998 he was President of the International Commission on Mathematical Instruction . He spoke many languages ​​(German, Italian, French, English, Portuguese, Latin and Greek) and was visiting scholar in Rio de Janeiro, Sweden, in Princeton and at Washington University in St. Louis .

He was married and had two sons, one (Miguel) became a well-known architect.

Fonts

  • Differentiation of Integrals in , Springer 1975
  • Real variable methods in Fourier Analysis , North Holland 1981
  • Aventuras matemáticas. Una ventana hacia el caos y otros episodios , Madrid, Ed. Pirámide 2006
  • with Baldomero Rubio: Problemas, conceptos y métodos del análisis matemático , Madrid: Pirámide, 3 volumes, 1990 to 1993
  • with B. Rubio: Integración: teoría y técnicas , Madrid: Alhambra 1979
  • Cuentos con cuentas , Ed. Nivola 2016
  • Para pensar mejor. Desarrollo de la creatividad a través de los procesos matemáticos , Ed. Pirámide 2006
  • Mirar y ver , Ed. Nivola 2004
  • El rincón de la pizarra: Ensayos de visualización en análisis matemático. Elementos básicos del análisis , Ed. Pirámide 2010
  • Ecuaciones diferenciales ordinarias.Teoria de estabilidad y control , Madrid: Alhambra 1975
  • with I. Peral, M. Walias: Problemas de ecuaciones diferenciales ordinarias , Madrid: Alhambra 1978
  • with others: Estructuras fractales y sus aplicaciones , Barcelona, ​​Labor DL ​​1993
  • La experiencia de discovery en geometría , Ed. Nivola 2002
  • Cómo hablar, demostrar y resolver en matemáticas , Base Universitaria, Anaya Educación 2004

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Miguel de Guzmán in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
personal data
SURNAME Guzmán, Miguel de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Guzmán Ozámiz, Miguel de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish math teacher
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Cartagena
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 2004
Place of death Madrid