Carlo Minnaja family name Minnaja
Carlo Minnaja (born 19 March 1940) is a retired professor of Mathematics, a native Esperanto speaker, and Esperanto translator, author and researcher. He authored many books about Esperanto, in Esperanto and Italian, including a vocabulary of Esperanto, and is a member of the Akademio de Esperanto.Academic career
Minnaja graduated with a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of Pisa in 1963. He earned his doctorate in Mathematics at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, and began his academic career as a professor at the Accademia Navale di Livorno in 1965.
In 1973, Minnaja became a mathematics professor in the University of Padua's Engineering Department. He taught the courses "Mathematics for Electrical Engineering," "History of Mathematics," and "Linear Algebra and Geometry for Information Engineering."
Between 1979 and 1994, he was a member of the Scientific Council of Institute of Computational Linguistics of Pisa. On a Fulbright scholarship, in 1983 and 1984, he was a visiting professor  at Virginia Tech and UCLA.
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