61. Maria Gaetana Agnesi Father Pietro agnesi (professor of mathematics, d. 1752) Sister maria Teresaagnesi (pianist and composer, b. 1724, d. 1780) http://www.nndb.com/people/886/000096598/

This is a beta version of NNDB Search: All Names Living people Dead people Band Names Book Titles Movie Titles Full Text for Maria Gaetana Agnesi Born: 16-May-1718 Birthplace: Milan, Italy Died: 9-Jan-1799 Cause of death: unspecified Gender: Female Religion: Roman Catholic Ethnicity: White Occupation: Mathematician Level of fame: Niche Executive summary: Instituzioni Analitiche Italian mathematician, linguist and philosopher, was born at Milan on the 16th of May 1718, her father being professor of mathematics in the university of Bologna. When only nine years old she had such command of Latin as to be able to publish an elaborate address in that language, maintaining that the pursuit of liberal studies was not improper for her sex. By her thirteenth year she had acquired Greek, Hebrew, French, Spanish, German and other languages. Two years later her father began to assemble in his house at stated intervals a circle of the most learned men in Bologna, before whom she read and maintained a series of theses on the most abstruse philosophical questions. Records of these meetings are given in de Brosse's Lettres sur l'Italie and in the Propositiones Philosophicae , which her father caused to be published in 1738. These displays, being probably not altogether congenial to Maria, who was of a retiring disposition, ceased in her twentieth year, and it is even said that she had at that age a strong desire to enter a convent. Though the wish was not gratified, she lived from that time in a retirement almost conventual, avoiding all society and devoting herself entirely to the study of mathematics. The most valuable result of her labors was the

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More Women in Math This week I have chosen to spotlight a woman who was not only brilliant mathematically, but a great humanitarian. First I would like to mention that another excellent source on women mathematicians is the book Women in Mathematics by Lynn M. Olsen. Second, since last week I have discovered that there is a computer server named hypatia.math . (Hurrah!) Now, let me introduce you to Maria Geatan Agnesi, the first woman math professor. Maria Geatan Agnesi was undoubtably unique among mathematicians. She lived her life in Milan, Italy, from 1718-1799. She had the fortune to be born into a society that found intelligent women attractive. She mastered many languages in her early childhood and at age nine published a Latin discourse describing the benefits of educating women. Her father was a professor in mathematics and the Agnesi home became a hub for intellectual activity. Despite her shy nature, Maria became actively involved in the discussions that ensued in her home. She was the oldest of 21 children and when her mother died she took on the responsibility of caring for the household. Even with this burden she continued her work in mathematics, though in a less public environment. In 1738 she published a collection of essays on philosophy and natural science entitled

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Women's History Resource Site King's College History Department WOMEN in Early Modern European SCIENCE: Maria Agnesi, Laura Bassi, Caroline Herschel, Mary Winkelmann Kirch, and Emilie du Chatelet. Since the beginning of time, women have played a vital role in the understanding of scientific processes. It is scientific women through out the centuries that have shaped our understanding of scientific technology. Approximately half of the human race, being women, has been important to the development of religion, agriculture and medicine. Even though the one way for women scientists to make it into other fields was through the scientific field of botany. A common theme I noticed in my research is that the historians were beginning to acknowledge that women were capable of doing more than gender defined activities, such as domestic duties and child rearing. Another similarity among these scientific women was that they each had published an important or famous work. For four thousand years, women have worked side by side with the men in their great quest for scientific knowledge and recognition. For example, these women of the past should be included in the discussion of the present and the future. The strength of this arguement depends on recognition of women such as Maria Agnesi, Laura Bassi, Caroline Herschel, Mary Winkelmann Kirch, and Emilie du Chatelet. Maria Agnesi was a child prodigy who mastered Latin, Hebrew, and Greek by the age of nine. She is by far the most important and extraordinary figure in mathematics during the eighteenth century. She earned the chair for mathematics early in her lifetime. Her most important work

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No. 217: THE WITCH OF AGNESI by John H. Lienhard Click here for audio of Episode 217. Today, we meet the Witch of Agnesi. The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them. H ere's an old geometry book. One of its problems leads you to construct a singularly gentle and graceful curve. We're told that the curve is called the Witch of Agnesi. But why? There's nothing sinister about its flowing line. It turns out that one person who worked with this curve was Maria Agnesi, a noted 18th-century Italian mathematician a woman mathematician! So she was the Witch. Well, perhaps. But maybe we should meet the lady. Maria Agnesi was born in 1718, the daughter of an Italian mathematics professor at the University of Bologna. She was a child prodigy and the apple of her father's eye. Yet she was shy and retiring. She wanted to become a nun, but her father wouldn't have that. Still, she never married. When she was twenty, her mother died and she took responsibility for the household. She also began work on what was already her second book.

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Maria Gaetana Agnesi Mathematician Team Owner: 1999 Sweepland Curves The "Witch of Agnesi" curve, with Cartesian equation of is named after her In 1991, the people who are responsible for such things, named a crater on the planet Venus "Agnesi" in honor of this distinguished Italian scientist. Agnesi's field was not astronomy, but mathematics. And while the planet Venus is often associated with the idea of romantic love, Maria was never married; in fact, she desired to be a nun. Her passion, it seems, was about ideas; not affairs of the heart. As a young girl MARIA GAETANA AGNESI was called a "Walking Polyglot" and the "Seven Tongued Orator." At the age of nine she transcribed and delivered a discourse in Latin on the need for female education entitled, "Oratio qua ostenditur artium liberalium studia femineo sexu necitiquam abhorre." She spoke Greek at 11 and Hebrew at 13. She was born on May 16, 1718, the first of 21 children of Pietro Agnesi a wealthy and educated man of Milan, Italy. Pietro's family had earned their wealth in the silk business. Her mother, one of Pietro's three wives was Anna Fortunato Brivio. On July 16, 1739 the French writer Charles de Brosses attended a gathering at the Agnesi home to hear Maria Gaetana deliver and debate intellectual issues, in Latin, with other assembled guests. (Her younger sister, Maria Theresa, an accomplished harpsichordist and singer also performed that evening.) Of the 20 year old Maria Gaetana, de Brosses wrote

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TOPIC : SCIENCE LEVEL : Advanced 1 Maria Agnesi Open a new file in Word. Name your file: Maria Agnesi Follow the instructions below. Type all your answers in your WORD-document. Send your answers to your e-mail. STEP 1 Can you imagine a rich woman giving her money to the poor? Can you imagine a very beautiful woman who never got married? Can you imagine a talented mathematician who stopped her professional career in order to take care of the handicapped? If you can't, go to http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi217.htm Answer the questions below. 1. Who was Maria Agnesi? 2. Where and when was she born? 3. What was her father's profession? 4. Explain the following sentence in your own words: "Maria was the apple of her father's eye". 5. What kind of girl was she? 6. What did she want to become? 7. Why didn't she fulfill her dream? 8. Did she ever marry? 9. What three things happened to Maria when she was twenty? 10. What was her second book about? 11. Prove that her work was recognized. 12. Complete: Though the French Academy her work, she never became its member since she was a_.

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Maria Gaetana Agnesi [Categories: Italian mathematicians, 1799 deaths, 1718 births] Maria Gaetana Agnesi (A native or inhabitant of Italy) Italian (A specialist in linguistics) linguist (A person skilled in mathematics) mathematician , and (A specialist in philosophy) philosopher . Agnesi is credited with (The work of a writer; anything expressed in letters of the alphabet (especially when considered from the point of view of style and effect)) writing the first (A major division of a long written composition) book discussing both (A quality that differentiates between similar things) differential and (The result of a mathematical integration; F(x) is the integral of f(x) if dF/dx = f(x)) integral (A hard lump produced by the concretion of mineral salts; found in hollow organs or ducts of the body) calculus . She was an honorary member of the (One of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind) faculty at the (Click link for more info and facts about University of Bologna) University of Bologna . Her father, Pietro, was a wealthy mathematics professor. Maria could speak both (The Romance language spoken in France and in countries colonized by France) French and (A native or inhabitant of Italy) Italian at five years of age. By her thirteenth birthday she had acquired

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Velkommen Information Forskning Personer ... Søg på IVHs site KOLLOKVIUM ved stud. scient. Susanne Æbelø, IVH Torsdag 30. sep. 1999 kl. 15.15 i koll. G4, IMF Agnesi - en heltinde i matematikhistorien? Abstract Maria Gaetana Agnesi levede fra 1718 til1799 i Milano, som en kendt lærd kvinde, der i hendes faders videnskabelige salon diskuterede naturfilosofi og matematik. Hun er specielt kendt for matematikbogen Lærebog i analyse til brug for den italienske ungdom , som hun udgav i 1748, hvorefter hun fik tilbudt et professorat ved universitet i Bologna. Der er skrevet mange biografier om Agnesi, og fremstillingerne varierer fra rene hagiografier til en total frakendelse af hendes betydning. Hendes livshistorie og en komparativ analyse af l’Hospitals Analyse af de uendeligt små størrelser til forståelse af kurver (1696) og bog II af Agnesis matematikbog, Om differentialregningen, vil danne grundlag for en perspektivering af Agensi og hendes rolle i matematikhistorien. Denne rolle sættes i forhold til datidens kvindeopfattelse og til andre kvinders naturvidenskabelige karrierer. Et centralt spørgsmål i foredraget vil være, om Agnesi ”bare” har fået opmærksomhed på grund af, at hun var kvinde – eller om hun virkelig var en god matematiker? Litteratur: Agnesi, Maria Gaetana:

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80. Biografia De Agnesi, Maria Gaetana Translate this page agnesi, maria Gaetana. (Milán, 1718- id., 1799) Matemática italiana. Profesora enla Universidad de Bolonia, sus investigaciones versaron sobre el cálculo http://www.biografiasyvidas.com/biografia/a/agnesi.htm

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