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= Diego Benardete = Dr. Diego M. Benardete is an Associate Professor in the Mathematics Department at the University of Hartford in Hartford, Connecticut. "Diego Benardete's research is on pure and applied aspects of dynamical systems and differential equations." He teaches multivarible calculus, differential equations, and linear algebra with matrix theory. He is the son of Maír José Benardete, along with his brothers Seth Benardete and José Benardete. He grew up in Brooklyn in an academic family. His father was a professor of Spanish at Brooklyn College and expert on Sephardic culture. Both of his brothers were also academically successful, Seth was an American classicist and philosopher and José was a philosopher.

Dr. Benardete received a Bachelors in Mathematics from Cornell University. He went on to earn a Masters and a Ph.D. from the City University of New York, graduating in 1985. Diego is known to enjoy both mathematics and humanities, occasionally going on tangents about both in class. He wrote, "I came to the Six-Year program with the intention of being a physicist who would also study and try to reconcile the conflict of the two cultures, science and humanities, which C. P. Snow had written about. In a way, my life since then has been a distant reflection of those boyish hopes. I switched from physics to mathematics ... after hanging around Ithaca for eight years, I finally got a BA."

Benardete is an accomplished academic, having his work published by several journals, including an article on the philosophy of mathematics in the "Spring 2001 issue of The Mathematical Intelligencer." He co-authored the section on the combinatiorial approach to reducability of mapping classes in the book, Mapping Class Groups and Moduli Spaces of Riemann Surfaces. He has been a member of the Mathmatical Assocation of America since the early 90's.  Benardete's passion for thought and knowledge is exemplified by his article on the philosophy of mathematics – he attempts to persuade students to attend both math and philosophy talks held at the University, and routinely says that students should expand their knowledge outside of the classroom. His love of philosophy is further explained in his biography.

On April 5, 1967, while studying at Cornell, he was pulling an all-nighter to complete a paper when he was one of the first people to realize that there was a fire in the building. He attempted to pull an alarm, but the system did not work. He then proceeded to go down the corridor banging on people's doors to alert them of the fire. Afterwards, he climbed out of a first story window, and with help from several others, obtained a ladder, rescuing 67 people from the building. His dorm, Cornell Heights Residential Club, was an off-campus building that had no fire escape, and ironically, the sprinkler system was going to be installed later that day. Eight students and a professor died in that fire.