{"id":9008,"date":"2017-05-16T07:09:30","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T07:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9008"},"modified":"2017-05-16T07:09:30","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T07:09:30","slug":"maria-gaetana-agnesi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/?p=9008","title":{"rendered":"Maria Gaetana Agnesi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Born on 16 May 1718 in Milan,\u00a0Maria Gaetana Agnesi \u00a0was an Italian mathematician, philosopher, theologian and humanitarian. Her contributions to mathematics are very important. She was the first woman to write a mathematics handbook and the first woman appointed as a Mathematics Professor at a university.<\/p>\n<p>She was the oldest of the 21 children and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/0262650096\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=6738&amp;creativeASIN=0262650096&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=invittoevent-21\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;was recognized as a child prodigy very early; spoke French by the age of five; and had mastered Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and several modern languages by the age of nine. At her teens, Maria mastered mathematics&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.agnesscott.edu\/lriddle\/women\/witch2.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;witch of Agnesi&#8221;<\/a> is a curve studied by Maria Agnesi in 1748 in her book <i>Instituzioni analitiche ad uso della giovent\u00f9 italiana. <\/i>This is\u00a0the first surviving mathematical work written by a woman.<\/p>\n<p>She died on 9 January 1799.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_9435\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9435\" style=\"width: 743px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9435\" src=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/743px-maria_gaetana_agnesi_28183629.png\" alt=\"Maria Gaetana Agnesi\" width=\"743\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/743px-maria_gaetana_agnesi_28183629.png 743w, https:\/\/cityadventurers.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/743px-maria_gaetana_agnesi_28183629-248x300.png 248w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 743px) 100vw, 743px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9435\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maria Gaetana Agnesi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2>Discover more about \u00a0<span id=\"productTitle\" class=\"a-size-large\">Women in Mathematics<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Women in Mathematics offers\u00a0a history from the 6th century BC of women&#8217;s contribution to mathematics. The eight biographies of woman mathematicians, by Lynn M. Osen,\u00a0chart\u00a0the growth of mathematics and provide a new approach to the history of mathematics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/0262650096\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=6738&amp;creativeASIN=0262650096&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=invittoevent-21\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;ASIN=0262650096&amp;Format=_SL250_&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;MarketPlace=GB&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;WS=1&amp;tag=invittoevent-21\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none !important;margin:0!important;\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-uk.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=invittoevent-21&amp;l=as2&amp;o=2&amp;a=0262650096\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born on 16 May 1718 in Milan,\u00a0Maria Gaetana Agnesi \u00a0was an Italian mathematician, philosopher, theologian and humanitarian. 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