Ubiratàn D'Ambrósio

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Ubiratàn D'Ambrósio (born December 8, 1932 in São Paulo , † May 12, 2021 ) was a Brazilian mathematics historian and mathematics educator.

Life

D'Ambrósio received his PhD in mathematics from the University of São Paulo in 1963 . Until his retirement in 1993 he was a professor at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP). From 1972 to 1980 he was director of the Institute for Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science and from 1982 to 1990 Pro-Rector (Vice President) of the university. From 1968 to 1970 he was at the State University of New York in Buffalo . 1970 to 1978 he also taught at the Pedagogical University in Bamako in Mali as part of a UNESCO program.

Since the late 1970s he has been one of the founders and proponents of ethnomathematics , the preoccupation with ethnographic aspects of mathematics. Here he also dealt specifically with the history of mathematics in the context of the colonization process.

D'Ambrósio was the founder of the Brazilian Society for the History of Mathematics and the International Group of Ethnomathematicians.

Fonts

  • Ethnomathematics and its Place in the History and Pedagogy of Mathematics. In: Arthur B. Powell, Marilyn Frankenstein (Ed.): Ethnomathematics. Challenging Eurocentrism in Mathematics Education. State University of New York Press, Albany NY 1997, ISBN 0-7914-3351-X , pp. 13-24.
  • Historiographical Proposal for Non-Western Mathematics. In: Helaine Selin (Ed.): Mathematics Across Cultures. The History of Non-Western Mathematics (= Science Across Cultures. 2). Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht et al. 2000, ISBN 1-4020-0260-2 , pp. 79-92.
  • A matemática na época das grandes navegações e início da colonização. In: Revista Brasileira de História da Matemática. Volume 1, No. 1, 2001, pp. 3-20, doi : 10.47976 / RBHM2001v1n102 .
  • Etnomatematica (= Complementi di matematica per l'indirizzo didattico. 8). Pitagora Editrice, Bologna 2002, ISBN 88-371-1352-8 (Italian).

Awards

In 2001 he received the Kenneth O. May Prize and in 2005 the Felix Klein Medal .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fallció el profesor Ubiratan D'Ambrósio, pionero en el estudio de la Etnomatemática. May 13, 2021, accessed May 13, 2021 (Portuguese).
personal data
SURNAME D'Ambrósio, Ubiratàn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Brazilian mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH December 8, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH São Paulo
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 2021