Sotero Prieto Rodríguez belongs to the mathematical record as a figure whose results outlasted the problems that prompted them.
The record lists Sotero Prieto Rodríguez as Mexican mathematician (1884–1935).
Sotero Prieto Rodríguez was born at Guadalajara in 1884. His recorded nationality is Mexico. He studied at Faculty of Engineering and Escuela Nacional Preparatoria.
Around the turn of the twentieth century the foundations of mathematics were under open attack, and set theory and logic became urgent questions.
His academic posts were held at Faculty of Engineering.
Mathematics is the one discipline whose results, once proved, are never overturned.
That the work was done from Mexico matters: mathematical training, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Sotero Prieto Rodríguez died in 1935, aged 51. The proofs remain, and a proof does not decay - which is the particular permanence mathematics offers.
Achievements
- Held posts at Faculty of Engineering
