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Vera W. de Spinadel Area of study: Architecture and
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Dr.
Vera W. de Spinadel earned her Ph.D. in Mathematics at the University
of Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1958. At present, she is Full
Consultant Professor of Mathematics at the University of Buenos
Aires. This is her second appointment since she got this degree
in 1995 until 2002 and it has been renewed until 2009. Since
1995, she has been the Director of the research Center on Mathematics
& Design (MAyDI), having received many I&D grants and
personal grants to develop the activitiesof many research groups.
In April 2005, she officially inaugurated the Mathematics &
Design Laboratory at the Faculty of Architecture, Design and
Urban Planning, University of Buenos. It is important to mention
that together with the University of Blumenau, Brazil, she is
organizing the Fifth International M&D Conference, to take
place June 4-7, 2007. She is the president of the International
Mathematics & Design Association since 1998, that publishes
the Journal of Mathematics & Design twice a year.
She is the author of ten books and has published more than eighty
original papers in national and international journals. She researches
in the field of "Metallic Means" in development of
the classical Golden Proportion got wide international recognition.
See Vera W. de Spinadel "Triangulature" in A.Palladio , Nexus Network Journal, vol. 1 (1999), pp. 117-120. http://www.nexusjournal.com/Spinadel.html and Vera W. de Spinadel, "The Metallic Means and Design", pp. 141-157 in Nexus II: Architecture and Mathematics, ed. Kim Williams, Fucecchio (Florence): Edizioni dell'Erba, 1998. http://www.nexusjournal.com/conferences/N1998-Spinadel.html
Contact:
Vera W de. Spinadel
The Mathematics & Design Association
José M. Paz 1131 - Florida (1602)
Buenos Aires - ARGENTINA
E-mail: vspinade@fibertel.com.ar
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