Marta Bunge

Marta Cavallo Bunge is an Argentine-Canadian mathematician specializing in category theory, and known for her work on synthetic calculus of variations and synthetic differential topology. She is 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
  1. Emeritus Professors and Post Retirees, McGill Mathematics and Statistics, retrieved 2018-11-29
  2. Bunge, Mario (2016), Between Two Worlds: Memoirs of a Philosopher-Scientist, Springer, pp. 139–140, ISBN 9783319292519
  3. Marta Bunge at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. Mario Bunge : philosophy and physics, McGill Newsroom, retrieved 2018-11-29
  5. Marta, Bunge, Academic background, McGill Mathematics and Statistics, retrieved 2018-11-29
  6. Butz, Carsten (2007), "Review of Singular Coverings of Toposes", Mathematical Reviews, MR 2258907
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