Itala D'Ottaviano

Itala Maria Loffredo D'Ottaviano (born 1944)[1] is a Brazilian mathematical logician who was president of the Brazilian Logic Society. Topics in her work have included non-classical logic, paraconsistent logic, many-valued logic, and the history of logic.[2]

Berkeley, 1985

Education

After graduating from the Conservatório Musical Carlos Gomes, a music school in Campinas, in 1960, D'Ottaviano studied mathematics at the Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas, graduating in 1966. She earned a master's degree in mathematics at the University of Campinas in 1974, and completed a Ph.D. there in 1982, advised by Mário Tourasse Teixeira and Newton da Costa, respectively.[3] Her doctoral dissertation, Sobre Uma Teoria de Modelos Trivalente, concerned the model theory of three-valued logic.[4] She earned a habilitation at the University of Campinas in 1987.[3]

Career

D'Ottaviano was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Stanford University, and the University of Oxford. She taught mathematics at the University of Campinas beginning in 1969, and became a titular professor there in 1998.[3] From 2013 to 2014 she was Provost of Graduate Studies at the university.[5]

She was president of the Brazilian Logic Society twice, from 1994 to 2003 and again from 2011 to 2014. She also headed the Committee on Logic in Latin-America of the Association for Symbolic Logic from 1993 to 1999.[5]

Book

With Roberto Cignoli and Daniele Mundici, D'Ottaviano is a coauthor of the book Algebraic Foundations of Many-Valued Reasoning (Kluwer, 2000).[6]

Recognition

D'Ottaviano is a full member of the International Academy of Philosophy of Science.[7]

References
  1. Birth year from Library of Congress catalog entry, retrieved 2021-01-30
  2. da Costa, Newton C. A.; Bueno, Otávio (2013), "Paraconsistent logic", in Nuccetelli, Susana; Schutte, Ofelia; Bueno, Otávio (eds.), A Companion to Latin American Philosophy, Blackwell Companions to Philosophy, John Wiley & Sons, pp. 217–229, ISBN 9781118610565. See in particular p. 218.
  3. Curriculum vitae, via "Itala Maria Loffredo D'Ottaviano", Research Supported by FAPESP, São Paulo Research Foundation, retrieved 2021-01-30
  4. Itala D'Ottaviano at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. "Itala M. Loffredo D'Ottaviano", International School of Logic, retrieved 2021-01-30
  6. Reviews of Algebraic Foundations of Many-Valued Reasoning: Siegfried Gottwald (2001), MR1786097; A.Dvurečenskij, Zbl 0937.06009
  7. Current members, International Academy of Philosophy of Science, retrieved 2021-01-29
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