Antonella Cupillari

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]

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.^[2] Her dissertation, A Small Boundary for ${\displaystyle H^{\infty }}$ 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]

Books

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]

Recognition

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]