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Maria Gaetana Agnesi

Born

in Milan, Italy

May 16, 1718

Died

January 09, 1799

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Analytical Institutions (1748), influential textbook of noted Italian mathematician Maria Gaetana Agnesi, summarized existing knowledge about algebra and calculus.

Pietro Agnesi, her wealthy father, made his money as a silk merchant and perhaps also a mathematics professor and produced this child with Anna Fortunata Brivio, his first wife. The best tutors taught her; recognized early as a child prodigy, she could speak Italian and French at five years of age in 1723 and also learned Greek, Hebrew, Spanish, German, and Latin before her eleventh birthday in 1729. She studied ballistics and geometry before fourteen years of age in 1732. Her father in 1733 began to host gatherings in his house of learned men at which his fifteen-year-old da ...more

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	The Contest for Knowledge: Debates over Women's Learning in Eighteenth-Century Italy by Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Giuseppa Eleonora Barbapiccola, Diamante Medaglia Faini 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Analytical Institutions, in Four Books, Vol. 1: Originally Written in Italian; Containing the First Book; To Which Is Prefixed, an Introduction by the Translator really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Analytical institutions in four books: originally written in Italian 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2015 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Propositiones philosophicae ex logica et metaph... 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1771	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Traités Élémentaires De Calcul Différentiel Et De Calcul Intégral 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Analytical Institutions in Four Books by Maria Gaetana Agnesi, John Hellins, John Colson (Creator) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Instituzioni Analitiche Ad Uso Della Gioventu Italiana, Volume 1... 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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