Rebeca Guber

Rebeca Cherep de Guber (2 July 1926 – 25 August 2020) was an Argentine mathematician, university professor, textbook author, and 1960s pioneer in the development of computer science in Argentina.

Guber died in 2020 from COVID-19.

Biography Rebeca Cherep was born in Avellaneda, a suburb of Buenos Aires, Argentina. She completed her undergraduate studies at the National University of La Plata, earned her PhD in mathematics, and taught at the Faculties of Exact and Natural Sciences and Engineering at the University of Buenos Aires.

She married José Guber, an engineer, and they had at least one child, Rosana Guber.

In 1960, she was part of the group of scientists and teachers who created the Argentine Calculation Society, under the direction of Manuel Sadosky, with whom, years before, she had written the textbook, Elements of Differential and Integral Calculus. In the years since its first publication, the text has been widely disseminated among advanced students of science and engineering, and republished many times.

Calculation Institute

The Calculation Institute (IC) of the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences was created around 1959. Rebeca Guber took over as Technical Secretary on June 6, 1960. A few months later, the computer named Clementina (which was installed in 18 metal cabinets stretching long ) became known as the first computer installed for scientific research in Argentina and began its operations at the IC.

Selected publications

Rebeca Guber; François Le Lionnais; Néstor Míguez; Luis Antonio Santaló, Las grandes corrientes del pensamiento matemático. Buenos Aires : Editora Universitaria de Buenos Aires, 1962. (in Spanish) Sadosky, Manuel; Guber, Rebeca Ch de, Elementos de cálculo diferencial e integral, Buenos Aires: Alsina, 1982. (in Spanish)