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Júlio Mello e Souza

was born 129 years ago

6 May 1895

Júlio César de Mello e Souza was a Brazilian mathematician who wrote very popular texts such as The man who counted under the pseudonym Malba Tahan. Brazil's National Day of Mathematics was instituted in 2013 to be on 6 May, Mello e Souza's birthday

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