Abstract

This paper discusses some articles published in the lay media by two influential Brazilian scientists: Manoel Amoroso Costa and Newton Affonso Carneiro da Costa. These articles show that the subjects typically addressed in studies of logic and philosophy of mathematic were similar to the European ones, however, from a very particular perspective. They were mainly made by engineers, and published in media not devoted to pure mathematics. Moreover, a large part of the public attentive to modern mathematics in Brazil was lay.