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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
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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 H^ 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 ''
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''. 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
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