Tatiana Roque

Biography

Tatiana Roque is a professor at the Institute of Mathematics at the Federal University in Rio de Janeiro and a lecturer at the Institute of Engineering there. She is part of the REHSEIS team, which deals with the history of science, and a member of the research institute at the Poincaré Archive, both in France. Her research covers the history of mathematics, especially the history of theories of differential equations and gravitational astronomy in the late 19th and 20th centuries. Her book “História da matemática: uma visão crítica, desfazendo mitos e lendas” (2012) was awarded the Jabuti Prize in 2013.