Manoel Amoroso Costa, Brazilian mathematician and engineer (Rio de Janeiro 13 January 1885 - Rio de Janeiro 03 December 1928)
ACHIEVEMENTS
Showed that notion of mass center of universe can't be extended to an infinite Newtonian universe. These idea was presented in A propos d' une note de M. Borel. Comptes Rendus Acad. Sci. Paris 175(24):1190-1, 1922.
Presented entitled work "L'univers infini-Quelques aspects du problème cosmologique" in Collége de France (1928).
Performed interesting studies about Non-Archimedean Geometries that were displayed in one course in Université de Paris called "Les Géométries non-archimédiennes" (1928).
His work Um problema sobre a catenária was reproduced in the book La Mesure Rapide des Bases Geodesiques (1917)
With O. Novaes. Um problema sobre a catenária. Rev. Did. Esc. Poli. Rio de Janeiro. 8:9-16, 1916
Obtained a theorem about summability series
Demonstração de um theorema. Rev. Did. Esc. Poli. Rio de Janeiro. 15:87-9, 1919
Developed a method for determining time using stars height
Generalized the notion of frequency from an accumulation element
SOME BIBLIOGRAPHY
Sobre a formação das estrelas duplas (1913)
Nota sobre a série de Taylor. Rev. Did. Esc. Poli. Rio de Janeiro. 9:17-8, 1916
Theoria dos integradores de espheras. Rev. Did. Esc. Poli. Rio de Janeiro. 12:69-73, 1918
Sobre um theorema de cálculo integral. Rev. Soc. Bras. Sciencias 2:65-7, 1918
Sobre alguns pontos da theoria das series divergentes. Rev. Sci. 1:24-8, 1920
Nota sobre a teoria dos instrumentos astronômicos (1926)