Manuel Sadosky
Manuel Sadosky | |
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 Manuel Sadosky and the computer Clementina | |
| Born | April 13, 1914 Buenos Aires,Argentina |
| Died | June 18, 2005 Buenos Aires,Argentina |
| Occupation | mathematician |
| Spouse | Corina (Cora) Eloísa Ratto |
| Children | Cora Sadosky(daughter) |
Manuel Sadosky(April 13, 1914 – June 18, 2005) was anArgentinemathematician,civil servant and author who was born inBuenos AirestoJewishRussianimmigrants who had fled thepogromsin Europe.[1]
Biography[edit]
Son of a shoemaker, Natalio Sadosky and his wife Maria Steingart of Ekaterinoslav (currentlyDnipro),Ukraine,[1]the family had arrived in Argentina in 1905.
Sadosky studied at theMariano Acostateachers school. Noted novelistJulio Cortázarwas his classmate there, and remained a longtime friend. Since his childhood he was an ardent supporter ofSan Lorenzo de Almagro.He married fellow mathematician and activistCora Ratto de Sadosky(1912–1981) in 1937. Biographer Pablo Jacovkis[1]has said that Cora, had a "powerful personality [that] was not overshadowed by her husband's."[1]The couple had one child, mathematicianCora Sadosky(1940–2010).
Education[edit]
Sadosky graduated as a Doctor in Physics and Mathematics at theUniversity of Buenos Airesin 1940, under supervision ofEsteban Terradas.He then moved to theHenri PoincaréInstitute inParisto pursue postdoctoral studies on a scholarship granted by the French Government. After another year inItaly,he returned to Argentina, where he faced complicated employment options because of his opposition to thePeronistregime.
After acoup d'étatof 1955 removedPresident Juan Perónfrom office, Sadosky took up a position as professor at the University of Buenos Aires, where he was vice-dean of the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences from 1957 to 1966.
Computational Institute[edit]
In 1960 he was commissioned to develop theComputational Institute(Instituto de Cálculo) of the university, home ofClementina,a newFerranti Mercurycomputer and the first one installed in Argentina for research and education.[2]His staff there included several excellent mathematicians includingCecilia BerdichevskyandRebeca Cherep de Guber,and both would work closely with him for many years to come.[3]
He directed the institute until another coup d'état installed a military dictatorship in 1966, causing him to resign with the rest of the faculty in opposition to government intervention in the hitherto autonomous state universities (theNight of the Long Batons) and flee the country.[1]
In exile[edit]
He was later able to return to Argentina, but theArgentine Anticommunist Alliancedeath squadthreatened to kill him so he fled with his family in 1974. He moved toUruguay,finding employment inMontevideoat theUniversidad de la República,where he continued publishing, helped to initiate computer studies and introduced the first research computer in that country.[3]
With the eventual return of democracy to Argentina in 1983, presidentRaúl Alfonsínappointed him as Secretary of State of Science and Technology (until 1989).
One of his major contributions to computer science during this period, was the creation of the ESLAI (Latin American School of Higher Informatics).
Later years[edit]
Dr. Manuel Sadosky died in Buenos Aires on June 18, 2005.
He was named an Illustrious Citizen of the City of Buenos Aires.[4]
The Computer Science Department of the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires is named after him.
Selected publications[edit]
- Sadosky, Manuel,Cálculo numérico y gráfico,Buenos Aires: Ediciones Libreria del Colegio, 1952
- Sadosky, Manuel,Marx, hombre y revolucionario,Montevideo Libros de la pupila, 1969
- Sadosky, Manuel,Catalogo colectivo de publicaciones periodicas en las bibliotecas universitarias del Uruguay,Montevideo: Universidad de la Republica, 1972.
- Sadosky, Manuel;Sadosky, Cora,Complementos teóricos de los Elementos de calculo diferencial e integral de Manuel Sadosky, Rebeca Ch. de Guber,Buenos Aires: Alsina, 1974.
- Sadosky, Manuel;Guber, Rebeca Ch de,Elementos de cálculo diferencial e integral,Buenos Aires: Alsina, 1982.
References[edit]
- ^abcdeJacovkis, Pablo (2015). "MANUEL SADOSKY Y SU IMPACTO EN LA CIENCIA Y EN LA POLÍTICA ARGENTINA" (PDF). Retrieved 2020-05-14.
- ^Berdichevsky, C, 2006, in IFIP International Federation for Information Processing, Volume 215, History of Computing and Education 2 (HCE2), ed. J. Impagliazzo, (Boston; Springer), pp. 203-215.
- ^abdevteam, educ ar."Pioneras informáticas rioplatenses".educ.ar(in Spanish).Retrieved2020-05-15.
- ^"Ley 1095, 2003-10-02".Archived fromthe originalon 2007-01-17.Retrieved2006-01-03.
External links[edit]
- Fundación Sadosky
- ObituaryPagina/12
- ObituaryClarín
- Secretaria de Ciencia y Tecnica
- Computer Science Department (FCEN-UBA)(in Spanish)
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