Manuel Sadosky (April 13, 1914 – June 18, 2005) was an
Argentine
Argentines (mistakenly translated Argentineans in the past; in Spanish (masculine) or (feminine)) are people identified with the country of Argentina. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Argentines, s ...
mathematician, civil servant and author who was born in
Buenos Aires to
Jewish Russian immigrants who had fled the
pogroms in Europe.
[Jacovkis, Pablo (2015). "MANUEL SADOSKY Y SU IMPACTO EN LA CIENCIA Y EN LA POLÍTICA ARGENTINA" (PDF). Retrieved 2020-05-14.]
Bibliography
Son of a shoemaker, Natalio Sadosky and his wife Maria Steingart of Ekaterinoslav (currently
Dnipro
Dnipro, previously called Dnipropetrovsk from 1926 until May 2016, is Ukraine's fourth-largest city, with about one million inhabitants. It is located in the eastern part of Ukraine, southeast of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on the Dnieper Rive ...
),
Ukraine,
the family had arrived in Argentina in 1905.
Sadosky studied at the ''Mariano Acosta'' teachers school. Noted novelist
Julio Cortázar
Julio Florencio Cortázar (26 August 1914 – 12 February 1984; ) was an Argentine, nationalized French novelist, short story writer, essayist, and translator. Known as one of the founders of the Latin American Boom, Cortázar influenced an ent ...
was his classmate there, and remained a longtime friend. Since his childhood he was an ardent supporter of
San Lorenzo de Almagro. He married fellow mathematician and activist
Cora Ratto de Sadosky (1912–1981) in 1937. Biographer Pablo Jacovkis
has said that Cora, had a "powerful personality
hatwas not overshadowed by her husband's."
The couple had one child, mathematician
Cora Sadosky (1940–2010).
Education
Sadosky graduated as a Doctor in Physics and Mathematics at the
University of Buenos Aires in 1940, under supervision of
Esteban Terradas. He then moved to the
Henri Poincaré
Jules Henri Poincaré ( S: stress final syllable ; 29 April 1854 – 17 July 1912) was a French mathematician, theoretical physicist, engineer, and philosopher of science. He is often described as a polymath, and in mathematics as "The ...
Institute in
Paris to pursue postdoctoral studies on a scholarship granted by the French Government. After another year in
Italy, he returned to Argentina, where he faced complicated employment options because of his opposition to the
Peronist
Peronism, also called justicialism,. The Justicialist Party is the main Peronist party in Argentina, it derives its name from the concept of social justice., name=, group= is an Argentine political movement based on the ideas and legacy of Ar ...
regime.
After a
coup d'état of 1955 removed
President Juan Perón from office, Sadosky took up a position as professor at the University of Buenos Aires, where he was vice-dean of the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences from 1957 to 1966.
Computational Institute
In 1960 he was commissioned to develop the ''Computational Institute'' (''Instituto de Cálculo'') of the university, home of ''Clementina,'' a new
Ferranti Mercury computer and the first one installed in Argentina for research and education. His staff there included several excellent mathematicians including
Cecilia Berdichevsky
Cecilia Berdichevsky or Berdichevski (née Tuwjasz) (1925 – 2010) was a pioneering Argentinian computer scientist and began her work in 1961 using the first Ferranti Mercury computer in that country.
Biography
She was born Mirjam Tuwjasz and
Rebeca Cherep de Guber, and both would work closely with him for many years to come.
He directed the institute until another coup d'état installed a military dictatorship in 1966, causing him to resign with the rest of the faculty in opposition to government intervention in the hitherto autonomous state universities (the
Night of the Long Batons
La Noche de los Bastones Largos ("The Night of the Long Batons") was the violent dislodging of students and teachers from five academic faculties of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), by the Federal Argentine Police, on July 29, 1966. The ac ...
) and flee the country.
In exile
He was later able to return to Argentina, but the
Argentine Anticommunist Alliance death squad
A death squad is an armed group whose primary activity is carrying out extrajudicial killings or forced disappearances as part of political repression, genocide, ethnic cleansing, or revolutionary terror. Except in rare cases in which they are ...
threatened to kill him so he fled with his family in 1974. He moved to
Uruguay, finding employment in
Montevideo
Montevideo () is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Uruguay, largest city of Uruguay. According to the 2011 census, the city proper has a population of 1,319,108 (about one-third of the country's total population) in an area of . M ...
at the
Universidad de la República
The University of the Republic ( es, Universidad de la República, sometimes ''UdelaR'') is Uruguay's oldest public university. It is by far the country's largest university, as well as the second largest public university in South America and t ...
, where he continued publishing, helped to initiate computer studies and introduced the first research computer in that country.
With the eventual return of democracy to Argentina in 1983, president
Raúl Alfonsín appointed him as Secretary of State of Science and Technology (until 1989).
One of his major contributions to computer science during this period, was the creation of the ESLAI (
Latin American School of Higher Informatics).
Later years
Dr. Manuel Sadosky died in Buenos Aires on June 18, 2005.
He was named an Illustrious Citizen of the City of Buenos Aires.
The Computer Science Department of the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires is named after him.
Selected publications
* Sadosky, Manuel, ''Cálculo numérico y gráfico'', Buenos Aires: Ediciones Libreria del Colegio, 1952
* Sadosky, Manuel, ''Marx, hombre y revolucionario'', Montevideo Libros de la pupila, 1969
* Sadosky, Manuel, ''Catalogo colectivo de publicaciones periodicas en las bibliotecas universitarias del Uruguay'', Montevideo : Universidad de la Republica, 1972.
* Sadosky, Manuel;
Sadosky, Cora, ''Complementos teóricos de los Elementos de calculo diferencial e integral de Manuel Sadosky, Rebeca Ch. de Guber'', Buenos Aires: Alsina, 1974.
* Sadosky, Manuel;
Guber, Rebeca Ch de, ''Elementos de cálculo diferencial e integral,'' Buenos Aires: Alsina, 1982''.''
References
External links
Fundación Sadosky''
Pagina/12''
Obituary''
Clarín''
Secretaria de Ciencia y TecnicaComputer Science Department (FCEN-UBA)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sadosky, Manuel
1914 births
2005 deaths
University of Buenos Aires faculty
Argentine Jews
Argentine mathematicians
Argentine people of Russian-Jewish descent
Illustrious Citizens of Buenos Aires
People from Buenos Aires
Jewish economists