Antonella Cupillari

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use list-defined references Antonella Cupillari (born 1955)Template:R 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.Template:R

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.Template:R Her dissertation, A Small Boundary for $H^{\mathrm{\infty }}$ on a Strictly Pseudoconvex Domain, concerned functional analysis, and was supervised by R. Michael (Rolf) Range;Template:R she also published it in the Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society.Template:R

Cupillari joined the faculty at Penn State Erie in 1984 and was promoted to associate professor in 1992.Template:R

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)Template:R
• 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)Template:R

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.Template:R

External links

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