Marta Bunge

Marta Cavallo Bunge (1938 – 25 October 2022) was an Argentine-Canadian mathematician specializing in category theory, and known for her work on synthetic calculus of variations and synthetic differential topology. She was a professor emeritus at McGill University.[1]

Marta Bunge
Marta Bunge at Ramifications of Category Theory, Firenze, November 2003
Born
Marta Cavallo

1938 (1938)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Died25 October 2022(2022-10-25) (aged 83–84)
Brooklyn, New York
Alma materUniversity of Pennsylvania
Scientific career
FieldsCategory theory
InstitutionsMcGill University
ThesisCategories of Set Valued Functors (1966)
Doctoral advisor

Education and career

Bunge was a student at a teacher's college in Buenos Aires, the daughter of Ricardo and María Teresa Cavallo. She met Argentine philosopher Mario Bunge while auditing one of his courses, and they eloped in late 1958 (as his second marriage).[2]

Bunge earned her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1966. Her dissertation, Categories of Set Valued Functors, was jointly supervised by Peter J. Freyd and William Lawvere.[3] When she was offered a postdoctoral research position at McGill in 1966, her husband followed her there, and they remained in Canada afterwards.[4] She became an assistant professor at McGill in 1969, was promoted to full professor in 1985, and retired as a professor emeritus in 2003.[5]

Books

With her doctoral student Jonathon Funk, Bunge is the co-author of Singular Coverings of Toposes (Lecture Notes in Mathematics 1890, Springer, 2006).[6] With Felipe Gago and Ana María San Luis, Bunge is the co-author of Synthetic Differential Topology (London Mathematical Society Lecture Note Series 448, Cambridge University Press, 2018).

References
  1. Emeritus Professors and Post Retirees, McGill Mathematics and Statistics, retrieved 29 November 2018
  2. Bunge, Mario (2016), Between Two Worlds: Memoirs of a Philosopher-Scientist, Springer, pp. 139–140, ISBN 978-3-319-29251-9
  3. Marta Bunge at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. Mario Bunge: Philosophy and Physics, McGill Newsroom, retrieved 29 November 2018
  5. Marta, Bunge, Academic background, McGill Mathematics and Statistics, retrieved 2018-11-29
  6. Butz, Carsten (2007), "Review of Singular Coverings of Toposes", Mathematical Reviews, MR 2258907
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