Antonella Cupillari facts for kids
Antonella Cupillari, born in 1955, is a mathematician from Italy and America. She loves learning about the history of math and how to teach math to others. She works as a professor at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College.
Learning and Working
Antonella Cupillari studied math at the University of L'Aquila in Italy. She earned her first degree there in 1978. Later, she continued her studies in the United States. She completed her Ph.D. (a very high university degree) at the University at Albany, SUNY in 1984. Her Ph.D. research was about a complex area of math called functional analysis.
After finishing her studies, Professor Cupillari started teaching at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College in 1984. She became an associate professor in 1992.
Books She Wrote
Professor Cupillari has written several books about mathematics and its history. These books help students understand math better.
- The Nuts and Bolts of Proofs (This book helps students learn how to write mathematical proofs, which are like showing step-by-step why a math idea is true.)
- Intermediate Algebra in Action (This book is about algebra, a type of math that uses letters and symbols to solve problems.)
- A Biography of Maria Gaetana Agnesi, an Eighteenth-Century Woman Mathematician (This book tells the story of Maria Gaetana Agnesi, an important woman mathematician from the 1700s.)
Awards
In 2008, Antonella Cupillari won an award for excellent teaching. This award came from the Allegheny Mountain Section of the Mathematical Association of America. It recognized her great work in teaching mathematics at a college or university.
