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The world of Maria Gaetana Agnesi, mathematician of God / Massimo Mazzotti.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mazzotti, Massimo.
- Series:
- Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Mathematics
- Johns Hopkins studies in the history of mathematics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women mathematicians--Europe.
- Women mathematicians.
- Mathematics--Europe--History--18th century.
- Mathematics.
- Agnesi, Maria Gaetana, 1718-1799.
- Agnesi, Maria Gaetana.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (240 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- He argues that Agnesi's life is the perfect lens through which we can gain a greater understanding of mid-eighteenth-century cultural trends in continental Europe.
- Contents:
- Engaging in a conversation
- Catholicisms
- Trees of knowledge
- Choices
- A list of books
- Calculus for the believer
- A new female mind
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-4214-1042-7
- OCLC:
- 823739765
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