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Witch of Agnesi: The True Story

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Faces of Geometry. From Agnesi to Mirzakhani

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The recent celebration of the three hundredth anniversary of the birth of Maria Gaetana Agnesi, offers an opportunity to reflect on how we have understood and misunderstood her legacy to the history of mathematics. Maria Gaetana was the author of an important vernacular textbook, Instituzioni analitiche ad uso della gioventú italiana (Milan, 1748), the first book dedicated to learners of mathematics and one of the best-known women natural philosophers and mathematicians of her generation.

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    Tullia Norando & Paola Magnaghi-Delfino

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Norando, T., Magnaghi-Delfino, P. (2020). Witch of Agnesi: The True Story. In: Magnaghi-Delfino, P., Mele, G., Norando, T. (eds) Faces of Geometry. From Agnesi to Mirzakhani. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 88. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-29796-1_14

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