Vera W. de Spinadel

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Vera W de Spinadel (2011)

Vera Martha Winitzky de Spinadel (born August 22, 1929 - † January 26, 2017 in Buenos Aires , Argentina ) was an Argentine mathematician .

Life

Vera W. de Spinadel and Erico Spinadel (2015)

Vera de Spinadel studied at the University of Buenos Aires , received her degree in mathematics in 1952, also completed courses in meteorology and reactor engineering (1955) and received her doctorate in 1958 (as the first woman in mathematics at the university). She was an assistant there from 1952 and taught from 1957, initially as a temporary adjunct professor and from 1962 as a regular professor with alternating other professorial positions. From 1982 she was a mathematics professor in the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urban Planning of the University of Buenos Aires and at the same time in the Faculty of Exact Sciences. In 2010 she retired. She also taught at the Belgrano University. In 1995 she was appointed director of the Center for Mathematics and Design at the University of Buenos Aires. In April 2005, de Spinadel founded the Laboratory for Mathematics & Design, on the university campus in Buenos Aires. From 1998 until her death she was the President of the International Association for Mathematics and Design. Every three years the association organized international congresses and meetings and published the magazine Mathematik & Design . De Spinadel has authored ten books and published more than 100 research papers.

She dealt with mathematics and design and generalized the golden ratio to other ratios given by irrational numbers (she assigned the names of other "metallic" name variants such as "silver") and became internationally known for this. She published books on chaos theory and fractals .

Books

  • From the Golden Mean to Chaos. Editorial Nueva Librería, Buenos Aires, Argentina 1998.
  • The Metallic Means and Design. Nexus II: Architecture and Mathematics. Editor: Kim Williams. Edizioni dell'Erba, 1998, ISBN 88-86888-13-9 .
  • Del Número de Oro al Caos. Editorial Nobuko SA, 2003, ISBN 987-43-5890-4 .
  • with Jorge G. Perera and Jorge H. Perera: Geometría Fractal. with CD. Editorial Nobuko SA, 2003, ISBN 987-1135-20-3 .
  • From the Golden Mean to Chaos. Editorial Nobuko SA, 2004, ISBN 987-1135-48-3 .
  • with Jorge G. Perera and Jorge H. Perera: Geometría Fractal. 2nd Edition. Editorial Nueva Librería, 2007, ISBN 978-987-1104-45-1 .
  • Cálculo Superior. 1st edition. Editorial Nueva Librería, 2009, ISBN 978-987-1104-72-7 .
  • From the Golden Mean to Chaos. 3. Edition. Editorial Nueva Librería, 2010, ISBN 978-987-1104-83-3 .
  • Forma y matemática: La familia de Números Metálicos en Diseño. 1st edition. Nobuko. Ediciones FADU, Difusión 22 series, Buenos Aires 2011, ISBN 978-987-584-319-6 .
  • Forma y matemática II: Fractales y forma. 1st edition. Nobuko. Ediciones FADU, Difusión 24 series, Buenos Aires 2012, ISBN 978-987-584-448-3 .

Journal articles

  • Sistemas Estructurados y Creatividad. In: Keynote Speaker Open Lecture for the International Mathematics & Design Conference MyD-95, 23. – 27. October 1995, FADU, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Proc. 1996, ISBN 950-29-0363-3 .
  • On Characterization of the Onset to Chaos. In: Chaos, Solitons and Fractals. 8 (10), 1997, pp. 1631-1643.
  • New Smarandache sequences. Proceedings of the First International Conference on Smarandache type Notions in Number Theory, ed. C. Dumitrescu & V. Seleacu, University of Craiova, 21. – 24. August 1997, American Research Press, Lupton 1997, ISBN 1-879585-58-8 , pp. 81-116.
  • Una nueva familia de números. In: Anales de la Sociedad Científica Argentina. 228 (1), 1998, pp. 101-107.
  • Triangulature in Andrea Palladio. Nexus Network Journal, Architecture and Mathematics
  • A new family of irrational numbers with curious properties. In: Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal. March 19, 1999, pp. 33-37, ISSN  1065-8297
  • The Metallic Means family and multifractal spectra. In: Nonlinear Analysis. 36, 1999, pp. 721-745.
  • The Golden Mean and its many relatives. First Interdisciplinary Conference of The International Society of the Arts, Mathematics and Architecture ISAMA 99, San Sebastián, Spain, 7. – 11. June 1999. Editors: Nathaniel A. Friedman and Javier Barrallo, ISBN 84-930669-0-7 , pp. 453-460.
  • The family of metallic means. In: Visual Mathematics. I (3), 1999.
  • The family of metallic means. In: Symmetry: Culture and Science. The Quarterly International Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry (ISIS-Symmetry). 10 (3-4), 1999, pp. 317-338.
  • The metallic means family and multifractal spectra. In: Nonlinear Analysis. Volume 36, 1999, pp. 721-745.
  • The Metallic Means family and Renormalization Group Techniques. In: Proceedings of the Steklov Institute of Mathematics. Suppl. 1, 2000, pp. S194-S209.
  • Fracciones continuas y la teoría de las proporciones de Palladio. ICVA Primer Congreso Virtual de Arquitectura, December 1999 to January 2000.
  • Half-regular Continued Fraction Expansions and Design. In: Journal of Mathematics & Design. 1 (1), March 2001.

Awards

  • Gold medal for 30 years of teaching at the University of Buenos Aires

Web links

Commons : Vera Martha Winitzky de Spinadel  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Curriculum Vitae ( Memento from September 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (pdf), IMU
  2. ↑ Dissertation by Vera W. de Spinadel: Theory of Reachable Zones in Bi-dimensional Systems. (PDF) University of Buenos Aires, Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences, accessed on May 4, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Reaearcher UBA. University of Buenos Aires, Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urban Planning, accessed May 4, 2017 .
  4. ↑ In memory. American Mathematic Society, accessed May 4, 2017 .
  5. ↑ International Mathematics & Design Association. (No longer available online.) International Mathematics & Design Association, archived from the original on April 2, 2014 ; accessed on May 4, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Spinadel, Vera W. de. WorldCat Identities, accessed May 4, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Vera W. de Spinadel - The Metallic Means and Design. Nexus Network Journal, accessed May 4, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Vera W. de Spinadel. (No longer available online.) International Mathematics Union, formerly in the original ; accessed on May 4, 2017 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.mathunion.org  
  9. ↑ Award Dr. Vera W. de Spinadel. (PDF) University of Buenos Aires, Faculty of Architecture, Design & Urban Planning, accessed on May 15, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Spinadel, Vera W. de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Spinadel, Vera Martha Winitzky de (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH August 22, 1929
DATE OF DEATH January 26, 2017
Place of death Buenos Aires , Argentina