Angelina Cabras

Angelina Cabras
Born	(1898-12-23)23 December 1898 Oristano, Italy
Died	19 June 1993(1993-06-19) (aged 94) Cagliari, Italy
Nationality	Italian
Alma mater	University of Turin University of Cagliari
Occupation(s)	mathematician, physicist

Angelina Cabras (23 December 1898 – 19 June 1993) was an Italian mathematician and physicist. She earned degrees in mathematics from the University of Turin in 1924 and in physics from the University of Cagliari in 1927. She obtained a position in mathematical physics at Cagliari, later moving to the institute of theoretical mechanics there. Her research concerned higher dimensional rigid body dynamics, the theory of relativity, and inductance.[1][2]

She was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1928.[3][4]

She died in Cagliari in 1993.[5]

References

1. "Cabras Angelina", Biografie di matematici italiani (in Italian), PRISTEM, Bocconi University, archived from the original on 2016-08-11, retrieved 2016-07-07.
2. De Martinis, Maria Antonietta; Maddalena, Lucia (2008), Gender mainstreaming nella storia della matematica, Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Matematiche e Statistiche, Università degli Studi di Foggia, retrieved 2016-07-07.
3. ICM Plenary and Invited Speakers since 1897, International Mathematical Union, archived from the original on 2017-11-24, retrieved 2016-07-07.
4. Cabras, Angelina (1928), "Fenomeni transitori in un ponte di Wheatstone a constituzione complessa" (PDF), Proc. ICM.
5. "Archivo Storico (Università degli Studi di Cagliari): Cabras Cusino Angelina". Retrieved 2021-04-11.