Nuno Crato
Nuno Paulo de Sousa kilos of Crato ( born March 9, 1952 in São Jorge de Arroios, Lisbon, Portugal) is a Portuguese mathematician and statistician. Since June 21, 2011, he has held the office of Minister of Education and Science in the Cabinet Passos Coelho.
Life
Nuno Crato, son of António Paulo kilos of Crato and Maria de Lourdes Machado de Sousa, both of which are working as professors of mathematics, was born on 9 March 1952 in the Lisbon municipality of São Jorge de Arroios. He grew up in Lisbon, the Azores and the United States.
Crato studied at the Institute of Economics and Management ( ISEG ) of the Technical University of Lisbon, where he completed his licenciatura (Bachelor) in Economics. He completed his studies there with the master in the field of mathematical methods of corporate management from. 1992 doctorate in Crato in the field of applied mathematics at the University of Delaware (USA). He then worked as a lecturer at various facilities, including at a Lisbon High School, at the Universidade dos Açores, at Stevens Institute of Technology and at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.
In 2000, Crato President of the International Symposium on Forecasting. He also returned in the same year returned to Portugal and came back to his first university institution. At the Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão worked as a professor of mathematics and statistics. At the same time Crato has also held the Presidency of the Portuguese Society of mathematics, was vice-rector at the Universidade Técnica de Lisboa. and board member of the Fórum Internacional de Investigadores Portugueses ( FIIP ).
In 2000, Crato President of the International Symposium on Forecasting. Between 2004 and 2010 he was chairman of the Portuguese Society for Mathematics
On 6 June 2008 it rose Aníbal Cavaco Silva, President of Portugal, in the state of Commander ( Comendador ) of the Order of Infante Dom Henrique.
In June 2010, Nuno Crato CEO of Taguspark. This he gave up on appointment as Minister of Education.
Policy
On 17 June 2011, the previously victorious in the general election Pedro Passos Coelho, Nuno Crato suggested as one of four non-party ministers in front of his cabinet. President Cavaco Silva then appointed him on 21 June 2011 as the Minister of Education and Science.
In the field of education Crato sit through especially a revision of curricula, including, among others, strengthening the core subjects (mathematics, Portuguese, History, Geography, English ) and belonged. Furthermore, this included more stringent standards for the final exams and their introduction to the mathematics and Portuguese after the fourth and ninth grade. Another emphasis he laid on strengthening the autonomy of the individual schools.
In addition, he sat in cooperation with the German Education Minister Annette Schavan for the introduction of the dual system of vocational training in Portugal. In higher education, Crato campaigned for a greater focus on core subjects and the differentiation and profiling of Portuguese universities and colleges. In cooperation with the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries ( CPLP ), he simplified the posting of Portuguese teachers, especially to East Timor.
Work
Nuno Crato is primarily concerned with the study of stochastic processes and time series analysis in rake, climatic and financial fields. The European Mathematical Society awarded him in 2003 the first prize in the competition Public Awareness of Mathematics for his numerous works. The European Union gave Crato 2008 European Science Award in the category Science Communicator of the Year.
Nuno Crato is author and co- author of numerous publications, may be mentioned, among other things:
- Eclipses ( Gradiva, 1999)
- Zodíaco: Constelações e Mitos ( Gradiva, 2001)
- Transitos de Vénus ( Gradiva, 2004)
- A Espiral Dourada, Coelho de Fibonacci, Pentagramas, Cifras e outros Mistérios Matemáticos d ' O Código Da Vinci ( Gradiva, 2006)
- Relógios de Sol (CTT, 2007)
- Passeio aleatório ( Gradiva, 2007)
- A Matemática the Coisas (SPM / Gradiva, 2008) e de obras de outras divulgação.
Furthermore, Crato frequently comments on issues regarding the level and form of education and higher education, including O Eduquês em Discurso Directo: Uma Crítica because Pedagogia Romântica e Construtivista ( Gradiva, 2006), he also gave the book Desastre no Ensino da Matemática: Como Recuperar o tempo Perdido (SPM / Gradiva, 2006), the anthology Ser Professor ( Gradiva, 2006) and the book Ensino da Matemática: Questões e Soluções ( Gulbenkian, 2011) out. In addition, Crato published since 1996 irregular columns in the weekly newspaper Expresso.
Private
Crato is married since 1985 and has a son and a daughter.