Šabbetay Unguru
Israeli historian of mathematics and science
About Šabbetay Unguru
Lived 1931 – 2024 (aged 93). Šabbetay Unguru was an Israeli historian of mathematics, professor, philologist and historian of science.
Sabetai Unguru (, Shabtai Unguru; 1 January 1931 – 6 January 2024) was an Israeli historian of mathematics and science.
Biography Sabetai Unguru was born in 1931 in Podu Iloaiei, Romania. He studied philosophy, philology, history, and mathematics at the University of Iași before immigrating to Israel in 1961. He obtained his Ph.D. in the history of science from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1970, and was an assistant and associate professor in the Department of History at the University of Oklahoma between 1970 and 1982.
Unguru was appointed associate professor at Tel Aviv University in 1983, and became full professor in 1987. He served as the Director of the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas at Tel Aviv University from 1991 to 1997.
Unguru died on 6 January 2024, at the age of 93.
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Israeli historian of mathematics and science
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Šabbetay Unguru was born on 1 January 1931 in Podu Iloaiei.
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Šabbetay Unguru died on 6 January 2024.
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