Monteiro graduated in Mathematics at the University of Lisbon in 1930, when he was 23 years old. He got a fellowship from the “Instituto para a Alta Cultura” of the Portuguese Ministry of Education that allowed him to study at the Institut Henri Poincaré in Paris, from November 1931 to July 1936. In 1936 obtained the degree “Docteur d’État” from the Sorbonne, after completing his thesis “Sur l’...
