Maria Agnesi's Role In Mythology
Maria Agnesi was born on May 16, 1718 in Milan, Italy. Agnesi was the oldest of 21 children; her father was a wealthy silk merchant who had been married three times. Agnesi was a smart girl even from a young age. Her father paid for Agnesi to be tutored. She was also a devout Catholic with a very kind heart. Agnesi was ahead of her time, because women were not necessarily treated equally as men during the 16th century; she was exposed to some great tutors and even worked at the University of Bologna. She died on January 9, 1799 in the poorhouse she had been working at.
Agnesi was a brilliant mathematician who wrote many different papers and essays on math. One of her most famous works was called Analytical Instructions. This essay was printed just like a math textbook. Agnesi even has a function in Trigonometry named after her. It is called the Witch of Agnesi. Many of the things Agnesi learned as child she learned from the scholars would come to talk to her father and she would listen in. (I think this paragraph needs more but idk what to put) As mentioned earlier Agnesi has a function in trigonometry named after her. The Witch of Agnesi is a versed sine curve; to achieve this curve you must start …show more content…
with a diameter of a circle and center it on a point on the y axis. Connect the y coordinate to the origin, within a line segment. Pick a point where where the vertical line through point A crosses the horizontal line through point B and trace the curve from that point through point A. In the end y=x and you have a curve going around the top of the circle.
One day Agnesi was written to by Pope Benedict XIV praising her for her work.
The Pope appointed her the Honorary Reader of the University of Bologna in Italy; in Agnesi’s time it was unheard of that a woman would have this position at a university. Later on, she would be offered the position of the head of mathematics department at the same university. Sadly, there are no records of Agnesi neither accepting nor declining the position. Soon after her father became ill and died. Agnesi received all his money because she was the oldest child. But, instead of using that money for herself she gave it to the poor and charities: a sign of humility. When Agnesi died in 1799, she had given all of her money to charity and died in the same poorhouse that she had
started.
Agnesi was a brilliant mathematician who wrote many different papers and essays on math. One of her most famous works was called Analytical Instructions. This essay was printed just like a math textbook. Agnesi even has a function in Trigonometry named after her. It is called the Witch of Agnesi. Many of the things Agnesi learned as child she learned from the scholars would come to talk to her father and she would listen in. (I think this paragraph needs more but idk what to put) As mentioned earlier Agnesi has a function in trigonometry named after her. The Witch of Agnesi is a versed sine curve; to achieve this curve you must start …show more content…
with a diameter of a circle and center it on a point on the y axis. Connect the y coordinate to the origin, within a line segment. Pick a point where where the vertical line through point A crosses the horizontal line through point B and trace the curve from that point through point A. In the end y=x and you have a curve going around the top of the circle.
One day Agnesi was written to by Pope Benedict XIV praising her for her work.
The Pope appointed her the Honorary Reader of the University of Bologna in Italy; in Agnesi’s time it was unheard of that a woman would have this position at a university. Later on, she would be offered the position of the head of mathematics department at the same university. Sadly, there are no records of Agnesi neither accepting nor declining the position. Soon after her father became ill and died. Agnesi received all his money because she was the oldest child. But, instead of using that money for herself she gave it to the poor and charities: a sign of humility. When Agnesi died in 1799, she had given all of her money to charity and died in the same poorhouse that she had
started.