Projeto para a criação do Centro de Memória do Instituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicadauma história de competência, paixão e perseverança

Resumo

The National Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IMPA) was established in 1952 as the first research institute by the Brazilian National Research Council (CNPq). From its beginning, IMPA was designed to pursue research in mathematics at its highest level and to promote the training of new researchers and the diffusion and improvement of mathematical culture in the country. More recently, IMPA began to pursue applications of mathematics in other areas of knowledge and in technology. In its 57 years of existence, it consolidated its scientific prestige and became a reference to research in mathematics and in the upgrading of new researchers in Brazil and in Latin America. In view of IMPA’s importance for the future of mathematical research in the country, it currently has as its main objective the establishment of directives for the creation of the Memory Center of the National Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (CEMIMPA). Following a tendency that IMPA has increasingly asserted since 1970, CEMIMPA would be a place for the production and re-elaboration of institutional identity and memory. This paper discusses IMPA's trajectory and the concepts of memory, holdings and identity, to effectively design the general directives of CEMIMPA and to demonstrate its importance for the Institution. The creation of a memory center like the one we propose would help to give visibility to the history of IMPA, to its researchers, and also to its areas of research. Reaching beyond the limits of the mathematical research scenario, CEMIMPA will seek to access a wide and diverse public that could vigorously influence the upgrading of youth in general, and in particular, future mathematicians. It could also enhance the research of the history of mathematics in Brazil and the trajectory of the researchers - past, present and future - who are members of the mathematical community.

Ficha do documento

Tipo

Dissertação

Ano

2009

Instituição

Fundação Getulio Vargas

Fonte

Repositório da FGV

Idioma

Português

Acesso

Acesso aberto

Identificador

oai:repositorio.fgv.br:10438/2690

Palavras-chave

MemoryHoldingsInstituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e AplicadaMemóriaAcervoCiências sociaisInstituto de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (Brasil)