Antonella Cupillari
Antonella Cupillari (born 1955)[1] is an Italian-American mathematician interested in the history of mathematics and mathematics education. She is an associate professor of mathematics at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College.[2]
Education and career[]
Cupillari earned a laurea at the University of L'Aquila in 1978, and completed her Ph.D. at the University at Albany, SUNY in 1984.[2] Her dissertation, A Small Boundary for on a Strictly Pseudoconvex Domain, concerned functional analysis, and was supervised by R. Michael (Rolf) Range;[3] she also published it in the Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society.[4]
Cupillari joined the faculty at Penn State Erie in 1984 and was promoted to associate professor in 1992.[2]
Books[]
Cupillari is the author of books on mathematics and the history of mathematics including:
- The Nuts and Bolts of Proofs (Wadsworth, 1989; 2nd & 3rd eds., Harcourt/Academic Press, 2000 & 2005; 4th ed., Academic Press, 2011)[5]
- Intermediate Algebra in Action (PWS Publishing, 1995)
- A Biography of Maria Gaetana Agnesi, an Eighteenth-Century Woman Mathematician: With Translations of Some of Her Work from Italian into English (Edwin Mellen Press, 2007)[6]
Recognition[]
Cupillari was the 2008 winner of the Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics of the Allegheny Mountain Section of the Mathematical Association of America.[7]
References[]
- ^ Year of birth from German National Library catalog entry, retrieved 2021-04-04
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Antonella Cupillari, Pennsylvania State University, retrieved 2021-04-04
- ^ Antonella Cupillari at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Reviews of A Small Boundary for on a Strictly Pseudoconvex Domain: Z. Binderman, Zbl 0594.32018; Alan V. Noell, MR0806077
- ^ Reviews of The Nuts and Bolts of Proofs: Edward J. Barbeau, Zbl 0974.00011; Georg Hein, Zbl 1288.00043; D. M. Hutton, Kybernetes, doi:10.1108/k.2006.35.3_4.595.5; Gizem Karaali, MAA Reviews, [1]; William Rogge, The Mathematics Teacher, JSTOR 27967159; P. N. Ruane, MAA Reviews, [2]; Walter Sanders, The Mathematics Teacher, JSTOR 20870962
- ^ Reviews of A Biography of Maria Gaetana Agnesi: Franka Miriam Bruckler, Zbl 1228.01037; Edith Prentice Mendez, Convergence, [3]; Luigi Pepe, MR2675954; P. N. Ruane, MAA Reviews, [4]
- ^ Allegheny Mountain Section Awards for Distinguished Teaching, Mathematical Association of America, retrieved 2021-04-04
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