Manuel Sadosky

Manuel Sadosky and Juan Carlos Angio, with the "Clementina" computer, around 1961

Manuel Sadosky (born April 13, 1914 in Buenos Aires in Argentina ; † June 18, 2005 ibid) was an Argentine mathematician , university professor and politician.

life and work

Sadosky was born the son of Russian immigrants and attended elementary and secondary school at the Escuela Mariano Acosta in Buenos Aires. In 1932 he began his studies at the Universidad de Buenos Aires . In 1940 he did his doctorate with Esteban Terradas i Illa with the dissertation: Sobre los métodos de resolución aproximada de ciertas ecuaciones de la Físicomatemática. He immediately began teaching at this university and at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata . From 1946 to 1948 he conducted research in Europe with a grant from the French government. In 1949 he returned to Buenos Aires, where he worked at the Faculty of Natural Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and at the Radiotechnical Institute. When he left the university for political reasons, he devoted himself to the translation and publication of scientific books. From 1955 he taught again at the University of Buenos Aires, first at the Faculty of Engineering and then at the Faculty of Natural Sciences, of which he was Vice Dean from 1959 to 1966. Between 1961 and 1966 he headed the Institute of Calculation, where innovative projects were carried out with Clementina, the first computer in South America. In 1966 he had to leave the university and moved to Uruguay . When he returned to Argentina, he was threatened with death and he fled again in 1974. With the return of democracy to Argentina in 1983, President Raúl Alfonsín appointed him Minister of Science and Technology (until 1989). In 1985 he became professor emeritus at the University of Buenos Aires.

One of his most important contributions to computer science during this time was the founding of the ESLAI ( Latin American School of Higher Informatics ) in 1986, which had to be closed again during the presidency of Carlos Menem in September 1990 due to a lack of financial support.

Sadosky was married to the mathematician Cora Ratto de Sadosky . Her daughter Cora Sadosky was a professor of mathematics at Howard University .

Publications (selection)

Manuel Sadosky, Rebeca Guber: Elementos de Calculo Diferencial e Integral (Spanish Edition), 2004, ISBN 978-9505531226
Cherep de Guber, Rebeca; Manuel Sadosky: Elementos de Calculo Diferencial E Integral T 2 (Spanish Edition), 1972, ISBN 978-9505530007

literature

Mario Bunge u. a .: Honoris Causa. El legado de Manuel Sadosky, Fondo de Cultura Economica, 2000
Borches, Carlos; Carnota, Raul: Manuel Sadosky, 2014, ISBN 978-9875994140
Manuel Sadosky; Raúl Carnota; Carlos Borches; Laura Rozenberg: Sadosky por Sadosky: vida y pensamiento del pionero de la computación argentina, Buenos Aires, Fundación Sadosky, 2011, ISBN 978-987-27416-0-0

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personal data
SURNAME	Sadosky, Manuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Argentine mathematician, university professor and politician
DATE OF BIRTH	April 13, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH	Buenos Aires , Argentina
DATE OF DEATH	June 18, 2005
Place of death	Buenos Aires , Argentina