José Martín Espinosa de los Monteros is remembered in mathematics for work the next generation could build on.
The record lists José Martín Espinosa de los Monteros as Spanish mathematician.
José Martín Espinosa de los Monteros was born at Málaga in 1776. His recorded nationality is Spain.
This was the age of analysis, when the calculus was pushed hard and its foundations were not yet secure.
Mathematics accumulates without discarding: a proof from two thousand years ago is still a proof.
That the work was done from Spain matters: mathematical training, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
José Martín Espinosa de los Monteros died in 1845, aged 69. The proofs remain, and a proof does not decay - which is the particular permanence mathematics offers.
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