A biography of Maria Gaetana Agnesi, an eighteenth-century woman mathematician : with translations of some of her work from Italian into English /
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Lewiston, N.Y. :
Edwin Mellen Press,
[2007]
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Table of Contents:
- Historical background
- The authors of the three biographies
- Translation of the revised work of Frisi, as published by the Masotti in 1965
- Tables
- Index of dates
- Genealogical information as reported by Anzoletti
- Additional material presented in notes and comments
- Works by Maria Gaetana Agnesi
- Mathematical material
- The Instituzioni Analitiche
- Agnesi's dedication
- Table of contents of the Instituzioni in English and in Italian
- Algebra
- The "Versiera" a.k.a. the Witch of Agnesi
- Introduction to the rules of differentiation
- Integral calculus
- Riccati's method for polynomials
- Differential equations of the first degree
- Conclusion
- Agnesi's solution to the mathematical problem mentioned by Frisi in the Elogio.