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He then went on to study Stochastic Methods at the University of Göttingen (Federal Germany) with a scholarship from the Instituto de Alta Cultura [Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture], where he attended the seminars of Professor Konrad Jacobs. Upon his return to the Faculty, he was barred from resuming his position as chair of Calculus and Probability, to which he had previously brought innovation and in which he had specialised. He was given the chair of Algebra; he would become one of the driving forces behind the later so-called Portuguese School of Linear Algebra, which achieved considerable international prestige.
In the mid-1950s, Armando Cortesão began preparing for the monumental work Portugaliae Monumenta Cartographica (Lisbon, 1960): While it is known that Luís de Albuquerque collaborated in this project, the precise terms and extent of his involvement are not, as is also the case with other collaborators of the team assembled by Cortesão, with the exception of Avelino Teixeira da Mota, whose prominence was such that he assumed co-authorship and went on to become responsible for the last volumes. The work itself is still regarded as a milestone in the discipline to the extent that David Woodward considers it unparalleled, despite his co-responsible role (with John Brian Harley) in an epistemological revolution in the History of Cartography that rendered the matrix that had shaped the PMC outdated. It is, indeed, a monument in itself, like the cartographic monuments it studies.
One of the most lasting effects of the efforts of this team was the institutionalisation of scientific work in the field of History of Cartography –a novelty at the time in Portugal - with the creation of the Agrupamento de Estudos de Cartografia Antiga da Junta de Investigações do Ultramar [Cluster of Ancient Cartography Studies of the Overseas Research Council] (divided into two branches). The Separata Series of the Agrupamento de Estudos de Cartografia Antiga da Junta de Investigações do Ultramar emerged in 1961, which was inaugurated by the Lisbon branch with a work by Teixeira da Mota (A. T. Mota, Cinco Séculos de Cartografia das Ilhas de Cabo Verde Five Centuries of Cartography of the Cape Verde Islands], 1960) and by the Coimbra branch with a study by Luís Albuquerque entitled Os Almanaques Portugueses de Madrid [The Portuguese Almanacs of Madrid] (1961).
