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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 
Timeline
Grandi's and Fermat's Earlier Work
The Instituzioni analitiche
Significance of the 1775 Translation
History of the Name "Witch" John Plairfair's Review 1804Interesting Mathematics
Derivation of the Curve: Equations
Graphing Calculator Program
Interactive Math Concepts in the "Witch"Vignettes from Her Life
Early Family Life
Did She Become a Nun?
Tributes and Honors
Streets Named for Agnesi Her Advice
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| 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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