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Alfonso Nápoles Gándara

died 32 years ago

11 November 1992

Alfonso Nápoles Gándara was the first Mexican mathematician to be awarded a Guggenheim fellowship. He was director of the Institute of Mathematics of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and president of the Mexican Mathematical Society for many years.

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