Biography
Authos Gloi Ischiros Mateo Domingo Pagano, Uruguayan-born Brazilian economist, lawyer, statistician and philosopher (Montevideo 21 September 1903/9 – São Paulo 12 March 1976)
Authored over 2,500 articles and 12 books
His doctoral thesis O coeficiente instantâneo de mortalidade (1939) gained acclaim and received a Cuban prize
His Lições de Estatística (1943) propelled British mathematician T.N.E. Greville to publish Laws of Mortality which satisfy a uniform seniority principle (1957)
His Lições de Estatística was translated into English by Michigan University (1952); a third edition of this book received a prize by Actuarial Institute of London (1956)
Authored a number of articles about astronomy in national and foreign journals (1940-50s)
He was honorary member of a great number of foreign cultural and scientific societies