Fernando Q. Gouvêa
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Fernando Quadros Gouvêa is a Brazilian number theorist and historian of mathematics. He is the Carter Professor of Mathematics at Colby College in Waterville, Maine.[1] He won the Lester R. Ford Award of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) in 1995 for his exposition of Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.[2] He also won the Beckenbach Book Prize of the MAA in 2007 for his book with William P. Berlinghoff, Math through the Ages: A Gentle History for Teachers and Others (Oxton House, 2002; 2nd ed., 2014).[3]
Gouvêa grew up in São Paulo, the son of a lawyer and banker, and was educated there in an English-language primary school and then at the Colégio Bandeirantes de São Paulo. He earned a bachelor's degree from the University of São Paulo[4], and then a master's degree in 1981 under the supervision of César Polcino Milies.[1][4] He moved to Harvard University in 1983 for continuing graduate study in number theory,[4] and completed his doctorate there in 1987; his dissertation, titled Arithmetic of p-adic Modular Forms, was supervised by Barry Mazur.[1][5]
He became a faculty member at the University of São Paulo, took a visiting position at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario in 1990, and was brought to Colby College by Keith Devlin, who had recently been hired as department chair there.[4]
He is the editor of the Carus Mathematical Monographs book series, and of MAA Reviews, an online book review service published by the MAA.[1]
