Antonella Cupillari
Antonella Cupillari 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.
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. Her dissertation, A Small Boundary for on a Strictly Pseudoconvex Domain, concerned functional analysis, and was supervised by R. Michael Range; she also published it in the Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society.Cupillari joined the faculty at Penn State Erie in 1984 and was promoted to associate professor in 1992.
Books
Cupillari is the author of books on mathematics and the history of mathematics including:- The Nuts and Bolts of Proofs
- Intermediate Algebra in Action
- ''A Biography of Maria Gaetana Agnesi, an Eighteenth-Century Woman Mathematician: With Translations of Some of Her Work from Italian into English''