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 'Paul the Apostle, Saint Paul') is the capital of the São Paulo (state), state of São Paulo, as well as the List of cities in Brazil by population, most populous city in Brazil, the List of largest cities in the ...
, and earned his doctorate from the
University of São Paulo
The Universidade de São Paulo (, USP) is a public research university in the Brazilian state of São Paulo, and the largest public university in Brazil.
The university was founded on 25 January 1934, regrouping already existing schools in ...
in 1963. He retired as a professor of mathematics from the
State University of Campinas
The University of Campinas (), commonly called Unicamp, is a public research university in the state of São Paulo (state), São Paulo, Brazil.
Established in 1962, Unicamp was designed from scratch as an integrated Research institute, researc ...
, São Paulo, Brazil in 1993.
He was a member of many societies, including
Pugwash, and served 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. Ev ...
(ICHM) for five years.
D'Ambrosio was also the founder of the Brazilian Society for Mathematics and History of the International Group of Ethnomathematicians.
In 2001, he and
Lam Lay Yong were jointly awarded the
Kenneth O. May Prize
Kenneth O. May Prize and Medal in history of mathematics is an award of the International Commission on the History of Mathematics (ICHM) "for the encouragement and promotion of the history of mathematics internationally". It was established in 19 ...
.
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
Helaine Selin (born 1946) is an American librarian, historian of science, author and book editor.
Career
Selin attended Binghamton University, where she earned her bachelor's degree. She received her MLS from SUNY Albany. She was a Peace Corps ...
(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
References
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1932 births
2021 deaths
Historians of mathematics
20th-century Brazilian historians
University of São Paulo alumni
Academic staff of the State University of Campinas
Academics from São Paulo