Cora Sadosky
Cora Susana Sadosky de Goldstein (born May 23, 1940 in Buenos Aires , Argentina , † December 3, 2010 in California ) was an Argentine mathematician and university professor. She was a professor of mathematics at Howard University.
life and work
Sadosky was born as the daughter of the mathematician Cora Ratto de Sadosky and the mathematician Manuel Sadosky . She went to school in three different countries and began studying physics at the University of Buenos Aires when she was 15 . After one semester, she changed subjects and began studying mathematics. In 1960 she obtained her Licenciada degree (comparable to a master’s degree in US nomenclature) and was offered a research assistantship at the University of Chicago . She did her doctorate in 1965 with Alberto Pedro Calderón with the dissertation: Parabolic Singular Integral Operators. She then returned to Argentina to marry the Argentinian doctor Daniel Goldstein, whom she met while studying molecular biology at Yale University, and became an assistant professor of mathematics at the University of Buenos Aires. In 1966, she and 400 other faculty members resigned in protest against a police attack on the School of Science. She then taught for one semester at the Universidad de la República in Venezuela and then became an Assistant Professor at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore . In 1968 she returned to Argentina, but did not get an academic position there and worked as a technical translator and editor. In 1974 she fled Argentina again, moved to Caracas and moved to the faculty of the Universidad Central de Venezuela . From 1978 to 1979 she did research at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton , New Jersey . In 1980 she was promoted to associate professor and in 1985 to full professor at Howard University . She stayed at Howard University until her retirement, with the exception of research stays at the University of Buenos Aires, the Institut d'Hautes Etudes Scientifiques in France and the University of California at Berkeley .
She wrote more than fifty scientific papers, and she actively campaigned for greater African American participation in mathematics. From 1993 to 1995 she was President of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM). She strengthened the international connections and engagement of the AWM in science policy, in particular as the initiator of the first Emmy Noether lecture at an international mathematics congress in 1994 and as a representative of AWM at the international mathematics congress in 1993. She was a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and was twice elected to the Council of the American Mathematical Society . She was also a member of the Human Rights Advisory Board of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute .
literature
- Remembering Cora Sadosky, a tribute in the Newsletter of the Association for Women in Mathematics, Vol. 41, No. 2, pp. 5-14, 2011
- Morrow, Charlene; Lynn Benander: Cora Sadosky, in Notable Women in Mathematics: A Biographical Dictionary, Charlene Morrow; Teri Perl, Editors, Greenwood Press, pp. 204-209, 1998
- Christ, Michael; Kenig, Carlos E .; Sadosky, Cora; Weiss, Guido. "Alberto Pedro Calderón (1920-1998)," Notices of the American Mathematical Society, Vol. 45, No. 9, 1998, pp. 1148-1153. [Contains Sadosky's recollections of her years as a graduate student with Calderón.]
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sadosky, Cora |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sadosky de Goldstein, Cora Susana |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Argentine mathematician and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 23, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Buenos Aires , Argentina |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 3, 2010 |
| Place of death | California |