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Maria Teresa D'Agnesi
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Extractions: According to the entry in the Norton/Grove Dictionary of Women Composers: Italian composer, harpsichordist, singer and librettist. As a girl she performed in her home while her elder sister Maria Gaetna (1718-99; she became a distinquished mathematician) lectured and debated in Latin. Charles de Brosses, who heard them on 16 July 1739 and was highly impressed, reported that Maria Teresa performed harpsichord pieces by Rameau and both sang and played compositions of her own invention. Her first theatrical work, Il restauro d'Arcadia, was successfully presented in Milan's ducal theatre in 1747. At about this time she dedicated collections of her own arias and instrumental pieces to the rulers of Saxony and Austria; according to Simonetti the Empress Maria Theresa sang from a collection of arias that Agnesi had given her. She married Pier Antonio Pinottini on 13 June 1752 but had no children. Her next opera, Ciro in Armenia, produced a the Regio Ducal Teatro in 1753, was to her own libretto. In 1766 her Insubria consolata was performed in Milan to honour the engagement of Beatrice d'Este and the Archduke Ferdinand. Her portrait hangs in the theatre museum of La Scala; other portraits are reproduced in the encyclopedia Storia di Milano (vols xii, xiv). Works:
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Extractions: Sequence of Events Interesting Mathematics Vignettes from Her Life T his 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
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Extractions: These are the women for which we have a some biographical information. We try to update the information quite regularly so we have given you the date of last modification of the file. This is an alphabetical list. You may also access a time-ordered list and now, finally, a field of study ordered list Scientist File Last Updated Acca-Lurentia (c. 634 BCE) October 08, 1999 Adams, Elisabeth (19th century) October 08, 1999 Aganice, (circa 1878 BCE) October 08, 1999 Aglaonike, (ancient Greece) October 08, 1999 Agnesi, Maria Gaetana October 08, 1999 Mary Anning October 08, 1999 Arate of Cyrene. (ancient Greece) October 08, 1999 Ardinghelli, Maria Angela (18 century) October 08, 1999 Atkins, Anna October 08, 1999 Ayrton, Hertha Marks October 08, 1999 Baker, S. Josephine October 08, 1999 Barbapiccola (middle ages) October 08, 1999 Barnothey, Madelaine - October 08, 1999 Beech, Olive Ann March 23, 2001 Benedict, Ruth October 08, 1999 Bassi, Laura October 08, 1999 Blackwell, Elizabeth
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Extractions: Italian mathematician, linguist and philosopher. Agnesi was born at Milan on the 16th of May 1718, her father being professor of mathematics in the university of Bologna. When only nine years old she had such command of Latin as to be able to publish an elaborate address in that language, maintaining that the pursuit of liberal studies was not improper for her sex. By her thirteenth year she had acquired Greek, Hebrew, French, Spanish, German and other languages. Two years later her father began to assemble in his house at stated intervals a circle of the most learned men in Bologna, before whom she read and maintained a series of theses on the most abstruse philosophical questions. Records of these meetings are given in de Brosse's Lettres sur l'Italie and in the Propositiones Philosophicae , which her father caused to be published in 1738. These displays, being probably not altogether congenial to Maria, who was of a retiring disposition, ceased in her twentieth year, and it is even said that she had at that age a strong desire to enter a convent. Though the wish was not gratified, she lived from that time in a retirement almost conventual, avoiding all society and devoting herself entirely to the study of mathematics. The most valuable result of her labours was the Instituzioni analitiche ad uso della gioventu italiana , a work of great merit, which was published at Milan in 1748. The first volume treats of the analysis of finite quantities. and the second of the analysis of infinitesimals. A French translation of the second volume by P. T. d'Antelmy, with additions by Charles Bossut (1730-1814), appeared at Paris in 1775; and an English translation of the whole work by John Colson (1680-1760), the Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge, was published in 1801 at the expense of Baron Maseres. Madame Agnesi also wrote a commentary on the
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Extractions: Agnesi, Maria Gaetana (17181799) Maria Agnesi was the first woman in the Western world who could accurately be called a mathematician. Her father encouraged Agnesi's interest in scientific matters by securing distinguished professors as her tutors and by establishing a substantial library and learning center in their home. Agnesi developed an intense interest in mathematics at an early age, and a t 14, she was solving difficult problems in analytic geometry and ballistics. As early as 17, she wrote a critical commentary on the Trait analytique des sections coniques by LHospital Agnesi was a well-published scientist by age 20 and an honorary faculty member of the University of Bologna by age 30. A decade of concentrated work culminated with the publication of her calculus book I n stituzioni analitiche ad uso dell a giovent italiana in 1748. This book received acclaim in academic circles all over Europe. The book's objective was to give a complete and comprehensive treatment of algebra and calculus. Newton was still alive when Agnesi was born, so that the development of the differential and integral calculus was still in progress during her lifetime.
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Extractions: In 1750, on the illness of her father, she was appointed by Pope Benedict XIV. to the chair of mathematics and natural philosophy at Bologna. After the death of her father in 1752 she carried out a long-cherished purpose by giving herself to the study of theology, and especially of the Fathers. After holding for some years the office of directress of the Hospice Trivulzio for Blue Nuns at Milan, she herself joined the sisterhood, and in this austere order ended her days on the gth of January 1799. Her sister, MARIA TERESA AGNESI (1724-1780), a well-known Italian pianist and composer, was born at Milan in 1724. She composed several cantatas, two pianoforte concertos and five operas, Sofonisbe, Giro in Armenia, Nitocri, II Re Pastore and Insubria consolata. See Antonio Francesco Frisi, f.loge historique de Mademoiselle Agnesi, translated by Boulard (Paris, 1807); Milesi-Mojon, Vita di M. G. Agnesi (Milan, 1836)'; J. Boyer, " La Mathematicienne Agnesi," in the Revue Catholique des revues frangaises et etrangeres (Paris, 1897).
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maria Gaetana agnesi. Born May 16, 1718 in Milan, Italy to a mathematics professorfather, Pietro agnesi, maria's main focus was differential calculus.
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Extractions: Maria Gaetana Agnesi In 1749, Maria Agnesi was appointed Chair of Higher Mathematics at the University of Bologna by Pope Benedick XIV. The pope said this of Agnesi and her work: Permit me, mademoisells, to unite my personal homage to the plaudits of the entire Academy. I have the pleasure of making known to my country an extremely useful work which has long been desired, and which has hitherto existed only in outline. I do not know of any work of this kind which is clearer, more methodic or more compreshensive than hyour Analytical Institutions. There is none in any language which can guide more surely, lead more quickly, and conduct further those who wish to advance in the mathematical sciences. I admire particularly the art with which you bring under uniform methods the divers conclusions scattered among the works of geometers and reached by methods entirely different. (H. J. Mozans, Women in Science, [N. Y.: D. Appleton, 1913]) She served in the position of Chair of Mathematics for two years, 1750-1752, until the death of her father. He was the driving force behind her interest in mathematics, and she immediately stopped her practice of the subject after he died. Some speculate that the only reason she entered into the field was because of her father's love for mathematics. Maria was quiet and deeply religious, and, unlike others of her time, was not looking to become a well-known mathematician. When she gave up mathematics after the death of her father, she worked at a home for ill and dying women. She never again took an interest in mathematics, and helped the homeless and needy until her death on January 9, 1799.
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Extractions: Agnesi was born in Italy in 1718 to a wealthy and literate family. She was the daughter of a mathematician. During this time, Italy was opposed to education for women, as a result even many upper class women could not read. But Agnesi was an exception. She was to grow up to be called one of the most extraordinary women scholars of all times. She is considered to be the first woman in the Western world who can accurately be called a mathematician (Gillispie 1970). Agnesi never married. She spent most of her time studying mathematics. However after her mothers death most of her time was spent caring for her younger brothers and sisters, and performing household duties (Perl 1978). Osen (1990) states that by the age of twenty and after 10 years of thought, Agnesi had produced her major work called Analytical Institutions, a treatise in two huge volumes dealing with differential and integral calculus, with an emphasis on concepts that were new in her time. After her work was published, in 1748, it created a great deal of excitement in the academic world. It was considered to be one of the most important mathematical publications produced by a woman up until that time. It gave her instant recognition in the academic circles of Europe. In the first section Analytical Institutions deals with the analysis of finite quantities. It also deals with elementary problems of maxima and minima, tangents, and points of inflection. The next section discusses the analysis of infinitely small quantities. The third section deals with integral calculus, with specific rules for integration and finally the last section deals with the inverse method of tangents and differential equations (Gillispie 1970).
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Extractions: - AGNESI, MARIA GAETANA - However, she did not give up mathematics yet. In 1738 she published a collection of complex essays on natural science and philosophy called Propositiones Philosophicae, based on the discussions of the intellectuals who gathered at her father's home. In many of these essays, she expressed her conviction that women should be educated. By the age of twenty, she began working on her most important work, Analytical Institutions, dealing with differential and integral calculus. "It is said that she started writing Analytical Institutions as a textbook for her brothers, which then grew into a more serious effort" [Osen, 41]. When her work was published in 1748, it caused a sensation in the academic world. It was one of the first and most complete works on finite and infinitesimal analysis. Maria's great contribution to mathematics with this book was that it brought the works of various mathematicians together in a very systematic way with her own interpretations. The book became a model of clarity, it was widely translated and used as a textbook. Analytical Institutions gave a clear summary of the state of knowledge in mathematical analysis. The first section of Analytical Institutions deals with the analysis of finite quantities. It also deals with elementary problems of maxima, minima, tangents, and inflection points. The second section discusses the analysis of infinitely small quantities. The third section is about integral calculus and gives a general discussion of the state of the knowledge. The last section deals with the inverse method of tangents and differential equations.
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Extractions: 19. Jan. 1795 ebd. Maria Teresa Agnesi erhielt Musikunterricht vermutlich bei ihrem Vater, Pietro Agnesi di Monteviglia, einem gebildeten Edelmann; er veranstaltete in seinem Hause wiss., literarische und mus. Akad., die von Prof. und Künstlern besucht wurden. Schon sehr früh manifestierte sich ihr mus. Talent in den häuslichen Zusammenkünften, bei denen sie als Cembalistin und Komponistin auftrat. Bald wurde sie in der Musik ähnlich berühmt wie ihre ältere Schwester Maria Gaetana in Mathematik und Philosophie. Im Sommer 1739 hatte der frz. Präs. Ch. de Brosses (eingeladen zusammen mit M. Loppin im Hause Agnesi zu einer wiss. Besprechung mit Maria Gaetana) Gelegenheit, M.T. Agnesi auf dem Cemb. einige Stücke von J.-Ph. Rameau und andere ihrer Kompos. spielen und, sich auf dem gleichen Instr. begleitend, singen zu hören (vgl. Brief von de Brosses an den Freund Bouhier in Mailand vom 17. Juli 1739). Gegen das 30. Lebensjahr begann sie sich auch für das Theater zu interessieren; ihr erstes Werk, Il ristoro d'Arcadia, wurde mit Erfolg 1747 im Teatro Ducale in Mailand aufgef. Zur gleichen Zeit wurde sie auch im Ausland bekannt und geschätzt, vor allem an den Höfen von Sachsen und Österreich, wo ihre Arien, Kantaten und Bühnenwerke, verschiedenen Mitgl. der regierenden Häuser gewidmet, günstig aufgenommen wurden (Kaiserin Maria Theresia von Österreich sang sogar aus einem Arienheft, das ihr M.T. Agnesi ungefähr 1748 gewidmet hatte). Am 13. Juni 1752, wenige Monate nach dem Tode ihres Vaters, heiratete M.T. Agnesi Pier Antonio Pinottini. Sie setzte ihre Tätigkeit als Cembalistin und Komponistin in vollem Umfang fort und gewann immer mehr Ansehen und Berühmtheit. Sie gehörte tatsächlich zu den bedeutendsten Persönlichkeiten des mus. Lebens in Mailand, die zwischen Jan. und März 1770 eingeladen waren, im Kloster von S. Marco in Mailand mit
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Extractions: Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Maria Ga tana Agnesi Maria Agnesi's father was Pietro Agnesi, a wealthy nobleman and a professor of mathematics at the University of Bologna. It was normal in that time for the daughters of noble families to be taught in convents, and to receive instruction in religion, household management and dressmaking. A few Italian families educated daughters in more academic subjects; a few attended lectures at the university or even lectured there. Pietro Agnesi recognized the talents and intelligence of his daughter Maria. Treated as a child prodigy, she was given tutors to learn five languages (Greek, Hebrew, Latin, French and Spanish) and also philosophy and science.

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