Sabetai Unguru (, ''Shabtai Unguru''; born 1 January 1931) is an Israeli
historian of mathematics
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and
science
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Science may be as old as the human species, and some of the earliest archeological evidence for ...
.
Biography
Sabetai Unguru was born in 1931 in
Podu Iloaiei,
Romania
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. He studied philosophy, philology, history, and mathematics at the
University of Iași
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, before
immigrating to Israel in 1961. He obtained his Ph.D. in the
history of science
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Science's earliest roots can be traced to Ancient Egypt and Meso ...
from the
University of Wisconsin–Madison
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in 1970, and was an
assistant and
associate professor
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Overview
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in the
Department of History at the
University of Oklahoma
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between 1970 and 1982.
Unguru was appointed associate professor at
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv University (TAU) ( he, אוּנִיבֶרְסִיטַת תֵּל אָבִיב, ''Universitat Tel Aviv'') is a public research university in Tel Aviv, Israel. With over 30,000 students, it is the largest university in the country. Locate ...
in 1983, and became
full professor
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in 1987. He served as Director of the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas at Tel Aviv University from 1991 to 1997.
Selected works
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References
1931 births
People from Iași County
Alexandru Ioan Cuza University alumni
Historians of mathematics
Historians of science
Institute for Advanced Study visiting scholars
Israeli historians
Romanian emigrants to Israel
Living people
Academic staff of Tel Aviv University
University of Oklahoma faculty
University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni
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