In the history of mathematics, Ramón María Aller Ulloa is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Ramón María Aller Ulloa as Spanish astronomer and mathematician (1878-1966).
Ramón María Aller Ulloa was born at Donramiro in 1878. His recorded nationality is Spain. He studied at University of Oviedo and Complutense University of Madrid.
Around the turn of the twentieth century the foundations of mathematics were under open attack, and set theory and logic became urgent questions.
Mathematical work is judged by whether anyone can build on it, and that judgement takes decades.
Recognition followed: Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X the Wise (1955).
That the work was done from Spain matters: mathematical training, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Ramón María Aller Ulloa died in 1966, aged 88. The proofs remain, and a proof does not decay - which is the particular permanence mathematics offers.
Achievements
- Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X the Wise — 1955
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