Sabetai Unguru Explained

Sabetai Unguru
Native Name Lang:	he
Birth Date:	1 January 1931
Birth Place:	Podu Iloaiei, Romania
Spouse:	Yocheved Unguru
Alma Mater:	University of Iași University of Wisconsin–Madison
Discipline:	History of science
Sub Discipline:	Ancient and medieval mathematics, optics, natural philosophy^[1]
Workplaces:	Tel Aviv University
Doctoral Students:	Leo Corry

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 theDepartment of History at the University of Oklahoma between 1970 and 1982.^[2]

Unguru was appointed associate professor at Tel Aviv University in 1983, and became full professor in 1987. He served as Director of the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas at Tel Aviv University from 1991 to 1997.^[3]

Unguru died on 6 January 2024, at the age of 93.^[4]

Selected works

Books

• Book: Fried . Michael N.. Unguru. Sabetai . Apollonius of Perga's Conica: Text, Context, Subtext . Brill . Leiden. 2001 . 978-90-04-11977-2 . 47056365.
• Book: Sabetai. Unguru. Witelonis Perspectivae liber secundus et liber tertius: Books II and III of Witelo's Perspectiva. Wrocław. The Polish Academy of Science Press. Studia Copernicana. XXVII. 1991. 978-83-04-03086-2 . 26586375.
• Book: Unguru, Sabetai. מבוא לתולדות המתמטיקה. An Introduction to the History of Mathematics. Ministry of Defence Publications. Tel Aviv. 1989. he. 22495107. 978-965-05-0420-5.
• Book: Sabetai. Unguru. Witelonis Perspectivae liber primus: Book I of Witelo's Perspectiva. Wrocław. The Polish Academy of Science Press. Studia Copernicana. XV. 1977. 873220431.

Articles

• Unguru . Sabetai . On the Need to Rewrite the History of Greek Mathematics . . Springer Nature . 15 . 1 . 1975 . 0003-9519 . 10.1007/bf00327233 . 67–114. 41133441. 121752060 .
• Unguru . Sabetai . History of Ancient Mathematics: Some Reflections on the State of the Art. . Isis . 70 . 254 . 1979 . 555–565. 10.1086/352342 . 230723. 144823961 .

Notes and References

1. Jahrbuch 1990/91. Rewriting the History of Greek Mathematics. Berlin Institute for Advanced Study. 1991. Sabetai. Unguru. 137.
2. Web site: Unguru Sabetai. Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas. Tel Aviv University. 22 February 2019.
3. Web site: Past and present, the go-between: Writing on ancient mathematical texts. 2 February 2016. Philosophy, Science and the Sciences. Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
4. https://kdh.org.il/regular-serch/search-results-deceased/grave-info/?deceased=156019 אונגורו שבתאי