Friday 23 May 2014

Who was Maria Agnesi?

Who was Maria Agnesi?
Maria Agnesi was an Italian linguist, mathematician, and philosopher.Agnesi is credited with writing the first book discussing both differential and integral calculus.She was an honorary member of the faculty at the University of Bologna. According to Dirk Jan Struik, Agnesi is "the first important woman mathematician since Hypatia(fifth century A.D.)".

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