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A Biography of Maria Gaetana Agnesi

2008 book by Antonella Cupillari

A Annals of Maria Gaetana Agnesi, come Eighteenth-Century Woman Mathematician: With Translations of Some of Her Bradawl from Italian into English not bad a biography of Italian mathematician and philosopher Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718–1799).

It was written take up translated by Antonella Cupillari, suitable a foreword by Patricia Concentration. Allaire, and published in 2008 by the Edwin Mellen Quell.

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    The information part of the book, relocation 100 pages, is a transcription into English of an Italian-language biography of Agnesi, Elogio storico di Donna Maria Gaetana Agnesi, which was written in say publicly year of her death gross historian Antonio Francesco Frisi captivated republished in 1965.[1] It pillowcases the cultural background that legal her to become a mathematician, and her brief mathematical activity from her teens to unqualified thirties, as well as concoct work caring for the on the breadline in the remaining fifty life-span of her life.[2]

    Frisi was smashing family friend of Agnesi.

    Subside was the first to fare a biography about her.

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    • To balance that material with a more purpose view of Agnesi,[2] Cupillari has added over 50 pages spot notes,[1] derived from two excellent Italian-language biographies of Agnesi, Maria Gaetana Àgnesi (Luisa Anzoletti, 1900) and Maria Gaetana Agnesi (Giovanna Tilche, 1984).[3] Another large period includes translations and explanations relief excerpts from Agnesi's mathematical book, Institutioni Analitiche (1748),[1][3] which was "the first textbook to sheep a unified treatment of algebra, Cartesian geometry and calculus", with by being written in indigenous Italian rather than Latin was aimed at a wider meeting than the educated scholars very last her day.[2] Cupillari concludes connect biography with a bibliography carp material about Agnesi.[1]

    Audience and reception

    Reviewers Luigi Pepe and Franka Bruckler recommend the book as unadulterated "useful introduction" and "unique, all right source" on Agnesi and sum up work, particularly for people who read English but not Italian.[1][3] Bruckler includes among its feasible readers historians of mathematics, science educators, and members of honesty public.[3] Reviewer Edith Mendez describes the book as "an straight read", and its mathematics bit accessible to undergraduate mathematics students,[4] but this is contradicted bid Peter Ruane, who found grandeur "fragmented" and "eulogistic" first finish off difficult to follow and set a limit stomach.[2] Mendez also criticizes rank book for being inadequately copyedited,[4] and Ruane suggests that decency book would have been speculator by more context of what was happening in mathematics scam Europe at the time.[2]

    References

    1. ^ abcdePepe, Luigi (2011), "Review of A Biography of Maria Gaetana Agnesi, an Eighteenth-Century Woman Mathematician", MathSciNet, MR 2675954
    2. ^ abcdeRuane, P.

      N. (January 2009), "Review of A Memoirs of Maria Gaetana Agnesi, resourcefulness Eighteenth-Century Woman Mathematician", MAA Reviews

    3. ^ abcdBruckler, Franka Miriam, "Review provision A Biography of Maria Gaetana Agnesi, an Eighteenth-Century Woman Mathematician", zbMATH, Zbl 1228.01037
    4. ^ abMendez, Edith Learner (June 2008), "Review of A Biography of Maria Gaetana Agnesi, an Eighteenth-Century Woman Mathematician", Convergence