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The "Witch."
The first surviving
mathematical work
written by a woman.
The corner of
Via Agnesi in Milan.
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| Sequence of Events 
TimelineGrandi's and Fermat's
Earlier WorkThe Instituzioni analiticheSignificance of the
1775 TranslationHistory of the Name "Witch" John Playfair's Review
1804Interesting Mathematics Derivation of the
Curve: EquationsGraphing Calculator
ProgramInteractive Math
Concepts in the "Witch"Vignettes from Her Life Early
Family LifeDid She
Become a Nun?Tributes and HonorsStreets Named for Agnesi Her Advice
to Future Students |
| This site is a
collection of Agnesi
miscellany built upon many exciting hours spent in some of the greatest
libraries in the English speaking world. We highly recommend that
you pause to look at the Bibliography and Acknowledgments web sites to
appreciate our far flung efforts to provide students with a tantalizing
smattering of the strength of resources in mathematics.
The opportunity to see as well as to know is the gift of our generation. Easy foreign travel is also another gift. May your local classroom education provide you with the background to fully appreciate the original sources you see in the future, be it those of mathematics, architecture, art, or any of the other rich treasures of civilization. In a fleeting moment we would like to have the vanity to call this web site A Complete Maria Gaetana Agnesi, providing both mathematics and history. Realistically, we know that we will have to continue to fill in the on-site links listed above with other textual and graphical materials. In addition, there are some off-site links to basic information which are certain to change. We especially hope that the Italian government or the
Vatican State
would issue a stamp honoring Agnesi. She did, in fact, have a
Mother
Teresa quality to her later life, but as a young woman she was devoted
to learning mathematics. We honor the first woman to publish
a
surviving work in mathematics. |
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This site is maintained by Dr. Shirley B. Gray [Site established January 1, 2001]
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In 2018 we remembered . . . .
Maria Gaetana Agnesi is recognized as a leader in mathematics, women's studies, education and charitable living. While rare, several copies of her treasured 1748 two-volume calculus Instituzionianalitichie... can be found in scholarly libraries throughout the United States and Europe. Significantly, in recognition of her being an "outstanding mathematician and impassioned Catholic," His Holiness Pope Francis has chosen to honor her on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of her birth, May 16, 1718, with a commemorative stamp. The Italiann government has similarly chosen to honor this truly remarkable woman.
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