Elena Marchisotto

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Elena Anne Corie Marchisotto (born 1945) [1] is a mathematician, mathematics educator, and historian of mathematics. She is a professor emeritus of mathematics at California State University, Northridge. [2]

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Education and career

Marchisotto graduated from Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart in 1967 and earned a master's degree from California State University, Northridge in 1977. She completed a Ph.D. in 1990 from New York University. [2] Her dissertation, The contributions of Mario Pieri to mathematics and mathematics education, was jointly supervised by Kenneth P. Goldberg and Anneli Cahn Lax. [3]

She joined the California State University, Northridge faculty in 1983. [2] . At Northridge, she also created and directed a developmental mathematics program, designed to train graduate students as teachers. [4] [5] [6] This developmental program earned the Noel Levitz Center National Conference on Student Retention, New Orleans: Award for Outstanding Mathematics Program in 1993. [7]

Writing

In 1995, Marchisotto became a co-author of a study edition of The Mathematical Experience (a book originally published in 1981 by Reuben Hersh and Philip J. Davis), [8] after having read the book and used it for her teaching from the early 1980s. [9] . The second edition of the book was published in 2012 and includes Epilogues written by the authors. [10]

She also co-authored an English translation of a history of mathematics by Umberto Bottazzini, Hilbert's Flute: The History of Modern Mathematics (with Bottazzini and Patricia Miller, Springer, 2016).

Marchisotto has written extensively about Mario Pieri:

Marchisotto's philosophy of teaching can be described as "humanistic" [12] Her publications on this philosophy include:

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References

  1. ↑ "Marchisotto, Elena (1945–....)", IdRef – Identifiants et référentiels pour l'Enseignement supérieur et la recherche, retrieved 2018-11-11
  2. 1 2 3 "Emeritus Faculty: Marchisotto, Elena A.", University Catalog, California State University, Northridge, 2018–2019
  3. ↑ Elena Marchisotto at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ↑ Kilts, Stefanie (February 18, 2013), "Faculty of Year honorees focus on students: online and in classroom", Post Independent, Jason Vargas owes it to a very special mentor that he is now teaching math at Colorado Mountain College. Dr. Elena Marchisotto, the director of the developmental math program at Cal State University – Northridge where Vargas attended college, recognized his potential and encouraged him to pursue teaching.
  5. ↑ Marchisotto, Elena Anne (2001) The graduate student as teacher: faculty meetings as a catalyst for teacher development. In Mathematics Education: An Encyclopedia. Taylor and Francis
  6. ↑ Marchisotto, Elena & Hartzog, John (1984) Mathematics 095, Review of pre-college mathematics: A Modular, Multi-Media Course. International Journal of Mathematics, Education, Science and Technology 15, 221-230
  7. ↑ A Compendium of Successful, Innovative Retention Programs and Practices, page 23
  8. ↑ Reviews of the updated edition of The Mathematical Experience :
    • Burgess, J. P.; Ernest, P. (June 1997), Philosophia Mathematica, 5 (2): 175–188, doi:10.1093/philmat/5.2.173 {{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Bultheel, A. (1997), "Review", Bulletin of the Belgian Mathematical Society, 4 (5): 706–707
    • Millett, Kenneth C. (November 1997), "Review" (PDF), Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 44 (10): 1316–1318
    • Wilders, Richard J. (March 2012), "Review", MAA Reviews
  9. ↑ Marchisotto, Elena Anne Corie (2017), "A case study in Reuben Hersh's philosophy: Bézout's theorem", Humanizing mathematics and its philosophy, Birkhäuser/Springer, Cham, pp. 329–345, MR   3751539
  10. ↑ The Mathematical Experience, Study Edition, second edition, (2012) P.J. Davis, R. Hersh, E.A. Marchisotto. Birkhäuser
  11. ↑ Reviews of The legacy of Mario Pieri:
    • Ruane, Peter N. (September 2007), "Review", MAA Reviews
    • Lewis, Albert C. (2008), Mathematical Reviews, MR   2310967 {{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  12. ↑ Marchisotto, Elena Anne (1992) "Mathematics as a Humanistic Discipline," Humanistic Mathematics Network Journal: Iss. 7, Article 9. Available at: http://scholarship.claremont.edu/hmnj/vol1/iss7/9
  13. ↑ Review of Mathematics for High School Teachers:
    • Ashbacher, Charles (December 2011), Review, MAA Reviews
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