Antonella Cupillari (born 1955) is an Italian-American mathematician interested in the
history of mathematics and
mathematics education. She is an associate professor of mathematics at
Penn State Erie, The Behrend College
Penn State Behrend (PSB) is a satellite campus of Pennsylvania State University and it is located in Erie, Pennsylvania. PSB is a four-year campus with over 5,000 students and over 250 faculty, in five academic programs: the Schools of Business, En ...
.
Education and career
Cupillari earned a
laurea at the
University of L'Aquila
The University of L'Aquila ( it, Università degli Studi dell'Aquila) is a public research university located in L'Aquila, central Italy. It was founded in 1964 (its history begins in 1596) and is organized in nine departments. The university pres ...
in 1978, and completed her Ph.D. at the
University at Albany, SUNY
The State University of New York at Albany, commonly referred to as the University at Albany, UAlbany or SUNY Albany, is a public research university with campuses in Albany, Rensselaer, and Guilderland, New York. Founded in 1844, it is one ...
in 1984. Her dissertation, ''A Small Boundary for
on a Strictly Pseudoconvex Domain'', concerned
functional analysis
Functional analysis is a branch of mathematical analysis, the core of which is formed by the study of vector spaces endowed with some kind of limit-related structure (e.g. Inner product space#Definition, inner product, Norm (mathematics)#Defini ...
, and was supervised by R. Michael (Rolf) Range; she also published it in the ''
Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society
''Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society'' is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal of mathematics published by the American Mathematical Society. As a requirement, all articles must be at most 15 printed pages.
According to the ' ...
''.
Cupillari joined the faculty at Penn State Erie in 1984 and was promoted to associate professor in 1992.
Books
Cupillari is the author of books on mathematics and the history of mathematics including:
*''The Nuts and Bolts of Proofs'' (Wadsworth, 1989; 2nd & 3rd eds., Harcourt/Academic Press, 2000 & 2005; 4th ed., Academic Press, 2011)
*''Intermediate Algebra in Action'' (PWS Publishing, 1995)
*''
A Biography of Maria Gaetana Agnesi, an Eighteenth-Century Woman Mathematician: With Translations of Some of Her Work from Italian into English'' (Edwin Mellen Press, 2007)
Recognition
Cupillari was the 2008 winner of the Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics of the Allegheny Mountain Section of the
Mathematical Association of America
The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) is a professional society that focuses on mathematics accessible at the undergraduate level. Members include university, college, and high school teachers; graduate and undergraduate students; pure a ...
.
References
External links
Home page
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1955 births
Living people
Italian mathematicians
Italian women mathematicians
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
American women mathematicians
Mathematics educators
American historians of mathematics
University at Albany, SUNY alumni
Pennsylvania State University faculty
Penn State Erie, The Behrend College
20th-century American women
21st-century American women