Ubiratan D'Ambrosio (December 8, 1932 – May 12, 2021) was a Brazilian mathematics educator and historian of mathematics.
Life
D'Ambrosio was born in
São Paulo
São Paulo (, ; Portuguese for ' Saint Paul') is the most populous city in Brazil, and is the capital of the state of São Paulo, the most populous and wealthiest Brazilian state, located in the country's Southeast Region. Listed by the GaW ...
, and earned his doctorate from the
University of São Paulo
The University of São Paulo ( pt, Universidade de São Paulo, USP) is a public university in the Brazilian state of São Paulo. It is the largest Brazilian public university and the country's most prestigious educational institution, the bes ...
in 1963. He retired as a professor of mathematics from the
State University of Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil in 1993 having behind him an impressive career as teacher, administrator, council member of many societies, including
Pugwash, and writer, and he also found time to serve the
International Commission on the History of Mathematics
The International Commission on the History of Mathematics was established in 1971 to promote the study of history of mathematics. Kenneth O. May provided its initial impetus. In 1974, its official journal Historia Mathematica began publishing. E ...
(ICHM) for five years. D'Ambrosio is the founder of the Brazilian Society for Mathematics and History of the International Group of Ethnomathematicians. Here he also dealt specifically with the history of mathematics in the context of the colonization process.
Writings
Books
* 1996, Educação Matemática: da teoria à prática.
Book chapters
* 1997, Ethno Mathematics. Challenging Eurocentrism, in Arthur B. Powell, Marilyn Frankenstein (eds.) ''Mathematics Education'', State University of New York Press, Albany 1997, p. 13–24.
* Historiographical Proposal for Non-Western Mathematics, in
Helaine Selin (ed.), ''Mathematics Across Cultures. The History of Non-Western Mathematics'', Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 2000, pp. 79–92.
Articles
A Busca da paz como responsabilidade dos matemáticos ''Cuadernos de Investigación y Formación en Educación Matemática'' 7 (2011)
A Etnomatemática no processo de construção de uma escola indígena ''Em aberto'' 63 (1994)
External links
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1932 births
2021 deaths
Historians of mathematics
20th-century Brazilian historians
University of São Paulo alumni
State University of Campinas faculty
People from São Paulo