Francisco Gomes Teixeira

Francisco Gomes Teixeira (28 January 1851, São Cosmado, Armamar – 8 February 1933, Porto) was a Portuguese mathematician and historian of mathematics.

FRANCISCO GOMES TEIXEIRA completed his course of study in the Faculty of Mathematics at the University of Coimbra in 1874, and was given the degree of doctor the following year, with a thesis on integration of second order partial differential equations.

Having observed that papers by Portuguese mathematicians were often ignored (and sometimes the results were independently discovered abroad) because there was no adequate means to make them known, GOMES TEIXEIRA founded the Jornal de Sciencias Mathematicas e Astronomicas (Journal of Mathematical Sciences and Astronomy) in 1877, which turned out to be the most important Portuguese mathematics journal of the 19th century.

[1][2] He was named the third astronomer of the Observatório Astronómico de Lisboa in 1878, but only held this positions for about four months before returning to the University of Coimbra.

In 1905 the Jornal de Sciencias Mathematicas e Astronomicas (founded by Gomes in 1877) was integrated into the newly created Anais Scientificos da Academia Politécnica do Porto.