Career
He was the Vice President of the International Mathematical Olympiad Site Committee in 1988. And he is the author of many books, including Equations and mathematicians (2008), and Problems of elementary mathematics Born in Havana, Cuba on September 10th, 1921, he earned the Doctorate in Physics and Mathematical Sciences from the University of Havana in 1944 with the thesis entitled Developments on the series of analytic functions. From 1945 to 1961 he taught at the Instituto de Segunda Enseñanza in Matanzas, and in 1950 he was part of the delegation that represented Cuba at the International Congress of Mathematicians at Harvard University.
In 1960, he held the position of National Inspector of Mathematics.
And starting in 1963, he organized competitions in mathematics for pre-collegiate students throughout Cuba. Some of his books that were published in Spanish are Contests in mathematics (1974), Problems in elementary mathematics (1987), and Equations and mathematicians (1988).
The latter was part of a series that he planned to write about: a story about mathematicians and the problems they have solved. He died on November 10, 2011.
