Castelo Branco (José de Freitas Teixeira Spínola de)
Original title: Castelo Branco (José de Freitas Teixeira Spinola de)
Funchal-born field marshal and mathematician (b. 1801), professor and director of the Escola Politécnica and author of mathematics textbooks.
He was born in Funchal on 7 January 1801, the son of Dr Maurício José de Castelo Branco Manuel (see that entry) and Dona Maria Dionísia de Freitas Abreu Castelo Branco. He followed a military career and rose to the rank of field marshal. He was a professor and director of the Escola Politécnica and a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences (Academia Real das Sciencias). He published Elementos de algebra superior, 1843, Applicação da algebra à geometria, 1847, and Noções de calculo differencial, 1838. He took part in the Liberal campaigns.
- José de Freitas Teixeira Spinola de Castelo Branco was born in Funchal.
- José de Freitas Teixeira Spinola de Castelo Branco published Noções de calculo differencial.
- José de Freitas Teixeira Spínola de Castelo Branco published Elementos de algebra superior.
- José de Freitas Teixeira Spinola de Castelo Branco published Applicação da algebra à geometria.