Maria Agnesi

Basics

• Born on 16 May 1718.
• Wrote books about differential and integral calculus.
• Italian mathematician and philosopher, a child prodigy.
• Namesake of the Witch of Agnesi curve. 
• Died on 9 January 1799.

Early Life

• Give an hour-long speech about women's right.
• Suffered a mysterious illness at the age of 12.
• Study ballistics and geometry at the age of 14.
• Studied both differential and calculus.

Later Life

• The chair of mathematics and natural philosophy and physics.
• She was the second women ever to be granted professorship at a university.
• In 1751, she was told by her doctor not to study by her doctor.
• In 1783, she founded and became the director of the Opera Pia Trivulzio.

Achievement

• Witch of Agnesi, a curve.
• A crater on Venus.
• Asteroid 16765 Agnesi.

Interesting Things

• Her father remarried twice after her mother died.
• She ended up the eldest of 23 children.
• She can speak 7 kinds of Languages.

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Work sited

• www.wikipedia.com