Supernumerary Member
Experimental Sciences: PhD in Mathematics
Date of admission: February 11, 2003
Medal: No. 100
Admission speech: “Mathematical Truth”
Reply speech: Dr. Josep Maria Costa Torres, PhD in Chemistry
Dr. JOSEP PLA CARRERA
UNIVERSITY QUALIFICATIONS
- PhD in Mathematics from the University of Barcelona (UB), with a thesis in algebraic logic.
- Professor of Mathematics at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), the Institut Químic de Sarrià (IQS), and mainly at the Faculty of Mathematics of the UB since 1969, where he is currently Emeritus Professor.
ACADEMIC ACTIVITY
- Numerary Member of the Royal European Academy of Doctors (RAED).
- Member of the Institute of Mathematics of the UB (IMUB).
- External Member of the Center for the History of Science (CEHIC).
PUBLICATIONS
- Author of Mathematics. A History of Its Concepts (Montesinos Publishing).
- Annotated and commented translation of Descartes’ La Géométrie (1999, with Pelegrí Viader).
- Publications on algebraic logic and the history of mathematics.
- Articles on mathematics popularization and history in the Bulletin of the Catalan Mathematical Society of the Institut d’Estudis Catalans (IEC).
- Contributor to volume 14 of the General History of Science (Urbis Publishing) and to 10 Impacts of 20th Century Science (Eumo / Fondo de Cultura Económica).
- Commented translation of Pierre de Fermat’s Opera Mathematica Varia (2008, with Pelegrí Viader and Jaume Paradís).
AWARDS AND HONOURS
- Scientific Literature Award (1998) for the novel Damunt les espatlles dels gegants (Edicions de la Magrana).