Ubiratàn D'Ambrosio


Ubiratan D'Ambrosio is a Brazilian mathematics educator and historian of mathematics.

Life

D'Ambrosio earned his doctorate from the University of São Paulo, Brazil in 1963. He retired as a professor of mathematics from the State University of Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil in 1993 having behind him an impressive career as teacher, administrator, council member of many societies, including Pugwash, and writer, and he also found time to serve the International Commission on the History of Mathematics for five years. D'Ambrosio is the founder of the Brazilian Society for Mathematics and History of the International Group of Ethnomathematicians. Here he also deals specifically with the history of mathematics in the context of the colonization process.

Writings

Books