Maria agnesi biography
Maria agnesi biography
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Milan, Habsburg Empire (now Italy)
Milan, Habsburg Empire (now Italy)
She discussed the cubic curve now known as the 'witch of Agnesi'.
Biography
Maria Gaetana Agnesi was the daughter of Pietro Agnesi who came from a wealthy family who had made their money from silk.Pietro Agnesi had twenty-one children with his three wives and Maria was the eldest of the children. As Truesdell writes in [20], Pietro Agnesi:-
...Some accounts of Maria Agnesi describe her father as being a professor of mathematics at Bologna.Maria agnesi mathematician
belonged to a class intermediate between the patricians and the merely rich. Such a bourgeois could have a household fit for a lord, comport himself like a knight, mingle freely with some nobles, occupy himself with the finer things of life, be a patron of men of talent.
[Pietro Agnesi] did just that...