Ubiratàn D'Ambrosio
Encyclopedia
Ubiratàn D'Ambrosio is a Brazilian historian of mathematics and mathematics teacher.
Historiographical Proposal for Non-Western Mathematics, Helaine Selin in (ed.), Mathematics Across Cultures. The History of Non-Western Mathematics, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 2000, pp. 79–92.
A matemática na época the grandes e navegações Início because colonização, Revista Brasileira de Matemática da História, Volume 1, 2001, pp. 3–20.
Etnomatematica, Pitagora Editrice, Bologna, 2002 (Italian).
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 ICHM 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
Ethno Mathematics. Challenging Eurocentrism, in Arthur B. Powell, Marilyn Frankenstein (Editor): Mathematics Education, eds. Arthur B. Powell and Marilyn Frankenstein, State University of New York Press, Albany 1997, p. 13-24.Historiographical Proposal for Non-Western Mathematics, Helaine Selin in (ed.), Mathematics Across Cultures. The History of Non-Western Mathematics, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 2000, pp. 79–92.
A matemática na época the grandes e navegações Início because colonização, Revista Brasileira de Matemática da História, Volume 1, 2001, pp. 3–20.
Etnomatematica, Pitagora Editrice, Bologna, 2002 (Italian).