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A Biography Of Maria Gaetana Agnesi, An Eighteenth-Century Woman Mathematician - 9780773452268

Un libro in lingua di Antonella Cuppillari edito da Edwin Mellen Pr, 2008

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While the debate about whether women should be allowed to study science and the fine arts raged about her, Agnesi quietly published the first complete and pedagogically appropriate textbook on differential and integral calculus in 1748. Her work was translated into French and English and fellow mathematician Frisi even published a contemporary biography of her. However, now Agnesi's work only falls into footnotes here and there. Cupillari (mathematics, Pennsylvania State U.-Erie) makes up for the lack of attention here, evaluating Agnesi as a mathematician and promoter of mathematics as well as a woman of her age. Cupillari also provides interesting background and genealogical information and new translations of the Frisi biography, Agnesi's work in mathematics, including the rules of differentiation, integral calculus, Riccati's method for polynomials, and differential equations of the first degree. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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