Between São Paulo and Paris: the Vector calculus of the engineer Theodoro Ramos

Abstract In 1930, the engineer Theodoro Ramos published a book on vector calculus through the French publisher Albert Blanchard. The context of is publication, the publishing house where it was printed, the market for books of this kind in France, and the appearance of this topic in the history of calculus are discussed. Some of the contents and material aspects of several works of a similar nature published in the same period are compared with a view to bringing to light the innovations and consistencies of the book in question vis-à-vis this bibliographic corpus. Alongside its intrinsically mathematical aspects, the sometimes conflicting representations of the book by specialists and students in its trajectory between São Paulo and Europe are observed.

摘要：1930年，工程师特奥多罗·拉莫斯（Theodoro Ramos）通过法国出版商阿尔贝·布朗夏尔（Albert Blanchard）出版了一部向量微积分相关著作。本文探讨了该著作的出版背景、承印出版社、法国本土此类书籍的市场环境，以及微积分史中该主题的出现脉络。本文将同期出版的若干同类著作的部分内容与素材特征纳入对比分析，以期揭示该著作相较于这批书志文献合集的创新之处与内在一致性。除其固有的数学学科属性外，本文亦考察了该书在圣保罗与欧洲之间的传播轨迹中，专家与学生群体对其给出的些许相悖评价。