Antonella Cupillari

Antonella Cupillari (born 1955) ^[1] is an Italian-American mathematician interested in the history of mathematics and mathematics education. She is an associate professor of mathematics at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. ^[2]

Education and career

Cupillari earned a laurea at the University of L'Aquila in 1978, and completed her Ph.D. at the University at Albany, SUNY in 1984. ^[2] Her dissertation, A Small Boundary for ${\displaystyle H^{\infty }}$ on a Strictly Pseudoconvex Domain, concerned functional analysis, and was supervised by R. Michael (Rolf) Range; ^[3] she also published it in the Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society . ^[4]

Cupillari joined the faculty at Penn State Erie in 1984 and was promoted to associate professor in 1992. ^[2]

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) ^[5]
• 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) ^[6]

Recognition

Cupillari was the 2008 winner of the Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics of the Allegheny Mountain Section of the Mathematical Association of America. ^[7]

References

1. Year of birth from German National Library catalog entry, retrieved 2021-04-04
2. Antonella Cupillari, Pennsylvania State University, retrieved 2021-04-04
3. Antonella Cupillari at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
4. Reviews of A Small Boundary for ${\displaystyle H^{\infty }}$ on a Strictly Pseudoconvex Domain: Z. Binderman, Zbl   0594.32018; Alan V. Noell, MR 0806077
5. Reviews of The Nuts and Bolts of Proofs: Edward J. Barbeau, Zbl   0974.00011; Georg Hein, Zbl   1288.00043; D. M. Hutton, Kybernetes, doi:10.1108/k.2006.35.3_4.595.5; Gizem Karaali, MAA Reviews, ; William Rogge, The Mathematics Teacher, JSTOR   27967159; P. N. Ruane, MAA Reviews, ; Walter Sanders, The Mathematics Teacher, JSTOR   20870962
6. Reviews of A Biography of Maria Gaetana Agnesi: Franka Miriam Bruckler, Zbl   1228.01037; Edith Prentice Mendez, Convergence, ; Luigi Pepe, MR 2675954; P. N. Ruane, MAA Reviews,
7. Allegheny Mountain Section Awards for Distinguished Teaching, Mathematical Association of America, retrieved 2021-04-04

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