Maria Gaetana Agnesi

Biography

Maria Gaetana Agnesi was an Italian mathematician and philosopher recognized as the first woman to write a mathematics textbook. Her two-volume work Instituzioni analitiche (1748) was one of the first comprehensive treatments of both differential and integral calculus. She was appointed to the chair of mathematics and natural philosophy at the University of Bologna — the first woman to hold such a position at any university.

玛利亚·加埃塔纳·阿涅西是一位意大利数学家和哲学家，被认为是第一位编写数学教科书的女性。她的两卷本著作《分析讲义》（1748年）是最早全面论述微积分的著作之一。她被任命为博洛尼亚大学数学和自然哲学教席——这是任何大学中第一位担任此职位的女性。

Key Achievements

• Wrote first comprehensive calculus textbook by a woman

  编写了首部由女性撰写的综合微积分教科书

• Appointed professor at University of Bologna

  被任命为博洛尼亚大学教授

• Studied the cubic curve known as 'Witch of Agnesi'

  研究了被称为'阿涅西的女巫'的三次曲线

References & Citations

1. Wikipedia: Maria Gaetana Agnesi — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Gaetana_Agnesi
2. Mazzotti, Massimo. The World of Maria Gaetana Agnesi. Johns Hopkins Univ Press, 2007.