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Cora Sadosky
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Cora Sadosky in Berkeley, 1995
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Cora Susana Sadosky
May 23, 1940 |
| Died | December 3, 2010 (aged 70) |
| Nationality | Argentinian |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago |
| Spouse(s) | Daniel J. Goldstein |
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| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Howard University |
| Doctoral advisors | Alberto Calderón, Antoni Zygmund |
Cora Sadosky (born May 23, 1940, died December 3, 2010) was a brilliant mathematician. She taught math as a professor at Howard University.
Early Life and Learning
Cora Sadosky was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her parents, Manuel Sadosky and Cora Ratto de Sadosky, were also mathematicians! When she was six, her family moved to France and Italy.
Cora was very smart and started college early. At just 15 years old, she began studying at the University of Buenos Aires. She earned her first degree in 1960. Later, she went to the University of Chicago in the United States. She earned her highest degree, a doctorate, in 1965.
Cora's Amazing Career
After finishing her studies, Cora returned to Argentina. She became an assistant professor of mathematics at the University of Buenos Aires. However, in 1966, she and about 400 other teachers quit their jobs. They were protesting against police actions at the School of Science.
She then taught for a short time at Uruguay National University. After that, she became an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University. Cora went back to Argentina in 1968. But she could not find a teaching job there. Instead, she worked as a translator and editor.
In 1974, Cora had to leave Argentina because of difficult political times. She moved to Caracas, Venezuela, and joined the faculty at the Central University of Venezuela. During this time, she wrote an important math textbook. It was published in the United States in 1979.
Cora spent a year at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. In 1980, she became an associate professor at Howard University. She visited the University of Buenos Aires for a year. Then, in 1985, she returned to Howard University as a full professor.
Awards and Honors
Cora Sadosky received special awards for her work.
- In 1983–1984, she was a visiting professor at the Institute for Advanced Study. This was part of an award from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
- She received another NSF award in 1995. She spent this time as a visiting professor at the University of California at Berkeley.
- In 1987–1988, she received a Career Advancement Award from the NSF. This allowed her to work at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI). She later returned there as a research professor.
Cora was also chosen to be the president of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM). She led the AWM from 1993 to 1995. The Sadosky Prize is a special award from the AWM. It is named in her honor to celebrate her contributions.
Her Math Research
Cora Sadosky's research focused on a field of math called analysis. She was especially interested in Fourier analysis and Operator Theory. Her doctoral work was about special math problems called parabolic singular integrals. She worked on this with her teachers, Alberto Pedro Calderón and Antoni Zygmund.
Cora worked with another mathematician, Mischa Cotlar. Together, they wrote more than 30 research papers. Their work included studies on:
- Moments theory
- Lifting theorems for measures
- Toeplitz forms
- Hankel operators
- Scattering systems
They also looked at how these ideas could be used with weighted norm inequalities. Cora also wrote a lot about harmonic analysis. This included harmonic analysis on Euclidean space and the Hilbert transform.
See also
In Spanish: Cora Sadosky para niños
