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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]
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 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]
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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]
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]
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