La construcción de la comedia española de buenas costumbres a partir del recurso apariencia frente a realidad

[ES]En este trabajo se propone un acercamiento a la construcción de la trama y los temas de la comedia española de buenas costumbres a partir del recurso de ‘la apariencia frente a la realidad’. Tal recurso se ramifica en cuatro procedimientos: fingimiento de una condición, fingimiento de una identidad, petimetría y apariencia en relación con la intriga. Para ello se toman obras representativas del género y se rastrean situaciones que reflejen los procedimientos citados. La conclusión es que el recurso funciona como tendencia unitaria que permite a los autores diseñar personajes y ejemplificar conductas, de modo que se adecuen al propósito moralizante de la comedia. [EN]This article provides an approach to the construction of the plot and themes in the Spanish comedy of good manners, using the concept of ‘appearance versus reality’ as a starting point. This concept is manifested in four ways: as a pretended condition, as a pretended identity, as “petimetría”, and as appearance in relation to the plot. I will use some representative works of the genre in order to see how these four elements are reflected in the texts. As I will try to show, the ‘appearance versus reality’ resource works as a unitary tendency that allows the authors to draw their characters and to illustrate a wide range of conducts, which suits the moralizing purpose of the comedy.

The Spanish mathematician Norberto Cuesta recovered from oblivion

This paper1 outlines the activity as a mathematician, historian, and compromised person of the Spanish mathematician Norberto Cuesta Dutari (1907-1989) and its relationship with the social and political situation in Spain under General Franco’s regime between 1939 and 1977 and the first years of the democratic restoration. It is shown that he was able to achieve a good mathematical production, though he never was close to the establishment and therefore could not profit from a number of opportunities for personal and institutional promotion. This article is the result of an elaboration of information directly gathered from its main protagonist, a number of secondary sources, and the primary sources: his papers and books, from which a hopefully complete list can be found in Appendix I

Following the steps of spanish mathematical analysis: from Cauchy to Weierstrass between 1880 and 1914

[EN] Rigorous Mathematical Analysis in the Cauchy style was not accepted in a straightforward manner by the European mathematical community of the central years of the 19th Century. In average, only around forty years after the 1821 Cours d'Analyse did Cauchy's treatment become a standard in the more mathematically advanced countries, as a paradigm that remained in use until the arithmetisation of Analysis by Weierstrass replaced it before the end of the century. ln this paper the authors show how rigorous Mathematical Analysis à la Cauchy was adopted in Spain quite late -around 1880- and how in sorne more forty years, the Weierstrassian formulation became the usual presentation in Spanish texts