Cora Ratto de Sadosky

Cora Eloisa Ratto de Sadosky (born January 3, 1912 in Argentina , † January 2, 1981 in Barcelona ) was an Argentine mathematician , university teacher and human rights activist.

life and work

Sadosky studied mathematics at the University of Buenos Aires, where she was the director of the Argentinian University Student Union (FUA). In 1937 she married the Argentine mathematician Manuel Sadosky . Their daughter Cora Sadosky also became a mathematician. During the Second World War she founded a women's organization, the "Junta de la Victoria", of which she was general secretary. In 1945 the Junta de la Victoria had nearly 50,000 followers in a country of fewer than 12 million people. In 1946 she traveled to Europe with her husband and daughter to continue her mathematics studies. In Paris she conducted research under the direction of Maurice René Fréchet . During a time of unrest and political repression at the universities, she returned to Argentina with her family and worked in a trading company to support the family. When the Argentine universities regained their autonomy in 1956, she and her husband were part of the team that set up a modern School of Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires . From 1958 to 1966 she was an associate professor of mathematics there. In 1959 she did her doctorate with Mischa Cotlar at the Universidad de Buenos Aires with the dissertation: Conditions of Continuity of Generalized Potential Operators with Hyperbolic Metric. In 1966, the first of a series of increasingly repressive military dictatorships took control of Argentina. 400 faculty members resigned from the University of Buenos Aires following a violent attack by the military and police on the School of Sciences. Sadosky withdrew from mathematics research and teaching and concentrated on denouncing the human rights violations committed by the military. In 1965 she founded and directed the monthly magazine Columna 10 with the aim of sensitizing the Argentine public to the Vietnam War, which at that time was barely noticed by the press. Threatened by the Argentine Anti-Communist Alliance, she and her husband left the country in 1974 and went first to Caracas , then to Barcelona. In exile, she continued to denounce abuse, torture and injustice. In 1996 the Cora Ratto de Sadosky Prize for National Mathematical Olympiads was established in her honor in Vietnam .

literature

• Bettye Anne Case, Anne M. Leggett: Complexities: Women in Mathematics, Princeton University Press, 2016, ISBN 978-0691171098

Web links

• biography
• Cora Ratto de Sadosky, scientist
• dissertation