Cesar Gallo

Venezuelan by birth he obtained the degree of Electrical Engineer at the Central University of Venezuela in 1974. This year he began to work as an engineer for the National Telephone Company of Venezuela (CANTV). At the beginning of 1977, he was offered a part-time position as a mathematic instructor at the Faculty of Economics, while continuing working as an engineer for the CANTV. This is how he found out that teaching is his great passion. In 1981 he was offered the position of full-time professor at the Central University of Venezuela, which he did not hesitate to accept immediately. From this moment on he began a long and productive academic career at this university, where in addition to teaching he was head of the Chair of Mathematics, both at the School of Administration and at the School of Economics. Likewise, he was head of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics of the School of Administration, of this same university. During the development of his activity as an educator, he produces various working papers on math teaching. Some of these papers were addressed to students and others to teachers to support the teaching activity. Among these materials stands out the book Mathematics for Students of Administration and Economics that was published in three volumes and written in the Spanish language. These books cover the fundamentals of Calculus with applications to Economics. They became the mathematics textbooks of choice for college students in the first semesters at various universities in the country. His concern for economic and social problems in his country leads him to pursue economics studies at both undergraduate and graduate levels. He got a bachelor’s degree in economics in 1994. He also pursued a master's degree in the development area at the Center for Development Studies (CENDES) of the Central University of Venezuela. Later, he moved to London to continue his master's studies in economics applied to Latin America at the University of London, and subsequently obtained a Ph.D. degree from this same university. As a result of these studies, he directs several research projects in economic inequality and poverty. He publishes many papers as products of these research works. These products include a book on the impact of economic reforms on income inequality focused on the Venezuelan case. He was a visiting researcher at the London School of Economics, the University of Ottawa in Canada, and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) at the University of Oxford. In 2018 he resided in the city of Houston (Texas, USA) where he begins to work as a Mathematics Tutor at Houston Community College in 2019 to the present. He is currently working on the production of new mathematics textbooks for students who are going to enter college or are already in their first semesters of study at the university level. Two of these books are already published on Amazon and are written in the English language. These books constitute a series whose objective is to formally introduce students to the study of Differential Calculus. These are light books, relatively short, easy to understand and handle. They are written in plain language without neglecting the formality and rigor in the presentation of the concepts. The idea is to present mathematical knowledge in a friendly and accessible way to anyone interested in learning, for which no special skills are required. It only requires a willingness to learn. You can contact Prof. Gallo at: cesarr.gallop@gmail.com