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Milan, Habsburg Empire (now Italy)
Milan, Habsburg Empire (now Italy)
She discussed the cubic curve now known as the 'witch of Agnesi'.
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Maria Gaetana Agnesi was the daughter of Pietro Agnesi who came from a wealthy family who had made their money from silk.Pietro Agnesi had twenty-one children with his three wives and Maria was the eldest of the children.
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As Truesdell writes in [20], Pietro Agnesi:-
belonged to a class intermediate between the patricians and the merely rich. Such a bourgeois could have a household fit for a lord, comport himself like a knight, mingle freely with some nobles, occupy himself with the finer things of life, be a patron of men of talent.Some accounts of Maria Agnesi describe her father as being a professor of mathematics at Bologna. It is shown cle[Pietro Agnesi] did just that