Ubiratan D'Ambrosio (December 8, 1932 – May 12, 2021) was a Brazilian mathematics educator and historian of mathematics.

Life

D'Ambrosio was born in

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, and earned his doctorate from the

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in 1963. He retired as a professor of mathematics from the

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, 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

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(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 dealt specifically with the history of mathematics in the context of the colonization process.

Writings

Books

* 1996, Educação Matemática: da teoria à prática.

Book chapters

* 1997, Ethno Mathematics. Challenging Eurocentrism, in Arthur B. Powell, Marilyn Frankenstein (eds.) ''Mathematics Education'', State University of New York Press, Albany 1997, p. 13–24. * Historiographical Proposal for Non-Western Mathematics, in

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(ed.), ''Mathematics Across Cultures. The History of Non-Western Mathematics'', Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 2000, pp. 79–92.

Articles

A Busca da paz como responsabilidade dos matemáticos
''Cuadernos de Investigación y Formación en Educación Matemática'' 7 (2011)
A Etnomatemática no processo de construção de uma escola indígena
''Em aberto'' 63 (1994)

External links

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