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Pilar Ribeiro

lived from 1911 to 2011

Pilar Ribeiro was a co-founder of the journal Gazeta de Matemática and co-founder of the Portuguese Mathematical Society, serving as its First Secretary. Along with her husband, the mathematician Hugo Ribeira, she spent 30 years in exile because of her opposition to the authoritarian Estado Novo regime in Portugal.

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