Julio Rey Pastor

Julio Rey Pastor was a Spanish mathematician and historian of science who did more than anyone to build modern mathematics in Argentina. Born in Spain in 1888, he studied at Zaragoza and Madrid, took his doctorate in Madrid, and then worked in Berlin and Göttingen under Felix Klein and others. Back in Spain he founded the first mathematics research institute outside a university and helped found the Spanish Mathematical Society. From 1917, and permanently from 1921, he taught at the University of Buenos Aires, where he introduced Klein's Erlangen Programme, founded the Argentine Mathematical Society and a research seminar, and trained a generation that included Alberto González Domínguez and Alberto Calderón. His own research dealt with geometry, with the summation of divergent series, and late in life with the history of Spanish cartography.