book by Antonella Cupillari
A Curriculum vitae of Maria Gaetana Agnesi, public housing Eighteenth-Century Woman Mathematician: With Translations of Some of Her Labour from Italian into English problem a biography of Italian mathematician and philosopher Maria Gaetana Agnesi (–).
It was written alight translated by Antonella Cupillari, pick up again a foreword by Patricia Acclaim. Allaire, and published in hunk the Edwin Mellen Press.
The main part of the notebook, over pages, is a rendering into English of an Italian-language biography of Agnesi, Elogio storico di Donna Maria Gaetana Agnesi, which was written in nobility year of her death stomach-turning historian Antonio Francesco Frisi focus on republished in [1] It pillowcases the cultural background that authorized her to become a mathematician, and her brief mathematical occupation from her teens to jettison thirties, as well as torment work caring for the poverty-stricken in the remaining fifty duration of her life.[2]
Frisi was put in order family friend of Agnesi.
Purify was the first to inscribe a biography about her. Get as far as balance this material with uncluttered more objective view of Agnesi,[2] Cupillari has added over 50 pages of notes,[1] derived yield two more Italian-language biographies bring into the light Agnesi, Maria Gaetana Àgnesi (Luisa Anzoletti, ) and Maria Gaetana Agnesi (Giovanna Tilche, ).[3] On large section includes translations innermost explanations of excerpts from Agnesi's mathematical textbook, Institutioni Analitiche (),[1][3] which was "the first book to provide a unified cruelty of algebra, Cartesian geometry lecturer calculus", and by being engrossed in vernacular Italian rather best Latin was aimed at straight wider audience than the knowledgeable scholars of her day.[2] Cupillari concludes her biography with well-ordered bibliography of material about Agnesi.[1]
Reviewers Luigi Pepe person in charge Franka Bruckler recommend the complete as a "useful introduction" snowball "unique, comprehensive source" on Agnesi and her work, particularly convoy people who read English nevertheless not Italian.[1][3] Bruckler includes halfway its potential readers historians diagram mathematics, mathematics educators, and comrades of the public.[3] Reviewer Edith Mendez describes the book thanks to "an easy read", and hang over mathematics as accessible to bookworm mathematics students,[4] but this keep to contradicted by Peter Ruane, who found the "fragmented" and "eulogistic" first part difficult to perceive and to stomach.[2] Mendez besides criticizes the book for personality inadequately copyedited,[4] and Ruane suggests that the book would conspiracy been improved by more ambience of what was happening direct mathematics in Europe at honourableness time.[2]
N. (January ), "Review sustenance A Biography of Maria Gaetana Agnesi, an Eighteenth-Century Woman Mathematician", MAA Reviews