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Elena Anne Corie Marchisotto (born 1945) is a mathematician, mathematics educator, and historian of mathematics. She is a professor emeritus of mathematics at California State University, Northridge.
Education and career
Marchisotto graduated from Manhattanville College in 1967 and earned a master's degree from California State University, Northridge in 1977. She completed a Ph.D. in 1990 from New York University. Her dissertation, The contributions of Mario Pieri to mathematics and mathematics education, was jointly supervised by Kenneth P. Goldberg and Anneli Cahn Lax.
She joined the California State University, Northridge faculty in 1983. At Northridge, she directed the developmental mathematics program.
Writing
With James T. Smith, Marchisotto wrote a book on Mario Pieri, The legacy of Mario Pieri in geometry and arithmetic (Birkhäuser, 2007).
In 1995, Marchisotto became a co-author of an updated edition of The Mathematical Experience (a book originally published in 1981 by Reuben Hersh and Philip J. Davis), after having read the book and used it for her teaching from the early 1980s. She also co-authored an English translation of a history of mathematics byUmberto Bottazzini, Hilbert's Flute: The History of Modern Mathematics (with Bottazzini and Patricia Miller, Springer, 2016).
Marchisotto's textbooks include:
- Topics in Intermediate Algebra (Wiley, 1987)
- Developmental Mathematics: Arithmetic, Algebra, and Measurement Geometry (Wiley, 1987)
- Mathematics for High School Teachers: An Advanced Perspective (with Zalman Usiskin, Anthony Peressini, and Dick Stanley, Prentice Hall, 2003)