Resumen de Julio Rey Pastor, su posición en la escuela matemática argentina

Eduardo L. Ortiz

• This paper was read at the Tandil Meeting of the UMA, in September 2010; in this presentation I keep to the original format of a lecture. I briefly consider three of the main attempts made in Argentina to establish a mathematics school, between 1817 and 1940, paying more attention to the third one, in which Julio Rey Pastor was the main character. Contrary to the earlier ones, in this last period mathematics began to be established as a distinct discipline, with its own problems and methods, while keeping close ties with other disciplines. In this lecture I’ll also consider some matters that emerged in parallel with these attempts, and make some remarks on the different approaches used to tackle them. At the same time I’ll try to relate the progress of mathematics in Argentina with the doctrines and ideas that, in different periods of its history, dominated its cultural life.