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Spanish civil engineer, mathematician, statesman, and dramatists.
José Echegaray was a multifaceted character of Spain in the late nineteenth century. civil engineer graduated from School of Madrid, mathematician, playwright, politician, with excellent results in all areas in which he was involved. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1904 and developed several projects in the exercise of ministerial portfolios of Finance and Development. He made important contributions to mathematics and physics. Introduced in Spain the Chasles geometry, the Galois theory, the elliptic functions. He is considered the greatest spanish mathematician of the nineteenth century.
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variant spelling:
Echegaray y Eizaguirre, José
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Curriculum vitae
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* 19.04.1832
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Madrid, Spain
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born
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1852
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Madrid, Spain
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He got the degree in civil engineering
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1854 - 1868
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Madrid, Spain
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Teaching as a professor of mathematics, sternotomy, hydraulics, geometry, calculus and physics.
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1858 - 1860
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Madrid, Spain
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Teaching as a professor
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1864
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Madrid, Spain
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Member of the Real Academia de las Ciencias Exactas
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1865
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Spain
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He started his literary activity.
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1888
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Madrid, Spain
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President of the Ateneo de Madrid
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1894
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Madrid, Spain
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Senator and president of the Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales
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1894 - 1916
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Madrid, Spain
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1901
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Madrid, Spain
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Senator and twice president of the Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales
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1903
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Madrid, Spain
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First president of the Sociedad Española de Física y Química
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1904
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Nobel Prize for Literature
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1905
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Madrid, Spain
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Professor of Mathematics and Physics.
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1908
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Madrid, Spain
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President of the Math section.
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1911
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Madrid, Spain
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First president.
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† 14.09.1916
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Madrid, Spain
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died
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