Marta Bunge
Marta Bunge | |
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 Marta Bunge at Ramifications of Category Theory, Firenze, November 2003 | |
| Born | Marta Cavallo 1938 |
| Died | 25 October 2022 (aged 83–84) |
| Alma mater | University of Pennsylvania |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Category theory |
| Institutions | McGill University |
| Thesis | Categories of Set Valued Functors (1966) |
| Doctoral advisor | |
Marta Cavallo Bunge (1938 – 25 October 2022) was an Argentine-Canadian mathematician specializing in category theory, and known for her work on synthetic calculus of variations and synthetic differential topology. She was a professor emeritus at McGill University.[1]
Education and career
Bunge was a student at a teacher's college in Buenos Aires, the daughter of Ricardo and María-Teresa Cavallo. She met Argentine philosopher Mario Bunge while auditing one of his courses, and they eloped in late 1958 (as his second marriage).[2]
Bunge earned her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1966. Her dissertation, Categories of Set Valued Functors, was jointly supervised by Peter J. Freyd and William Lawvere.[3] When she was offered a postdoctoral research position at McGill in 1966, her husband followed her there, and they remained in Canada afterwards.[4] She became an assistant professor at McGill in 1969, was promoted to full professor in 1985, and retired as a professor emeritus in 2003.[5]
Books
With her doctoral student Jonathon Funk, Bunge is the co-author of Singular Coverings of Toposes (Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1890, Springer, 2006).[6] With Felipe Gago and Ana María San Luis, Bunge is the co-author of Synthetic Differential Topology (London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series 448, Cambridge University Press, 2018).
References
- ^ Emeritus Professors and Post Retirees, McGill Mathematics and Statistics, retrieved 29 November 2018
- ^ Bunge, Mario (2016), Between Two Worlds: Memoirs of a Philosopher-Scientist, Springer, pp. 139–140, ISBN 978-3-319-29251-9
- ^ Marta Bunge at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Mario Bunge: Philosophy and Physics, McGill Newsroom, retrieved 29 November 2018
- ^ Marta, Bunge, Academic background, McGill Mathematics and Statistics, retrieved 2018-11-29
- ^ Butz, Carsten (2007), "Review of Singular Coverings of Toposes", Mathematical Reviews, MR 2258907
External links
- Home page
- Marta Bunge publications indexed by Google Scholar
