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Bento Caraça

lived from 1901 to 1948

Bento Caraça was a Portuguese mathematician who was very active in supporting mathematics and also organisations which supported democracy against Salazar's authoritarian government. He wrote the interesting book Fundamental Concepts of Mathematics and was one of the founders of the journal Gazeta de Matemática.

Find out more at: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Caraca/