Her father, Pietro Agnesi, also married twice more after Maria's mother died, so that Maria Agnesi ended up the oldest of 21 children.

The Witch of Agnesi is also a fiction novel by Robert Spiller, in which a teacher gives a version of the history of the term.

The story of Sophonisba also served as subject for works by John Marston ( 1606 ), David Murray ( 1610 ), Nathaniel Lee ( 1676 ), Daniel Caspar von Lohenstein ( 1680 ), Henry Purcell ( 1685 ), Antonio Caldara ( 1708 ), Leonardo Leo ( 1718 ), Luca Antonio Predieri ( 1722 ), James Thomson ( 1729 ), Niccolò Jommelli ( 1746 ), Baldassare Galuppi ( 1747, 1764 ), Tommaso Traetta ( 1762 ), Antonio Boroni ( 1764 ), Christopher Gluck ( 1765 ), Maria Teresa Agnesi ( 1765 ), Mattia Vento ( 1766 ), François Joseph Lagrange-Chancel, revised by Voltaire ( 1770 ), Christian Gottlob Neefe ( 1776 ), António Leal Moreira ( 1783 ), Joseph Joaquín Mazuelo ( 1784 ), Vittorio Alfieri ( 1789 ), Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi ( 1802 ), Marcos Portugal ( 1803 ), Ferdinando Paer ( 1805 ), Vincenzo Federici ( 1805 ), Luigi Petrali ( 1844 ), Emanuel Geibel ( 1869 ), Jeronim de Rada ( 1892 ), Giuseppe Brunati ( 1904 ), Dimitrie Cuclin ( 1945 ), Vasco Graça Moura ( 1993 ), and others.

Maria Gaetana Agnesi was born in Milan on May 16, 1718, to a wealthy and literate family.

* Witch of Agnesi by Chris Boucher based on work by Eric W. Weisstein, The Wolfram Demonstrations Project.

*" Cubique d ' Agnesi " at Encyclopédie des Formes Mathématiques Remarquables ( in French )

400 AD ), Ada Lovelace ( 1815 – 1852 ), Maria Gaetana Agnesi ( 1718 – 1799 ), Emmy Noether ( 1882 – 1935 ), Sophie Germain ( 1776 – 1831 ), Sofia Kovalevskaya ( 1850 – 1891 ), Alicia Boole Stott ( 1860 – 1940 ), Rózsa Péter ( 1905 – 1977 ), Julia Robinson ( 1919 – 1985 ), Olga Taussky-Todd ( 1906 – 1995 ), Émilie du Châtelet ( 1706 – 1749 ), Mary Cartwright ( 1900 – 1998 ), Olga Ladyzhenskaya ( 1922 – 2004 ), and Olga Oleinik ( 1925 – 2001 ).

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* Pierre de Fermat studies the curve later known as the " Witch of Agnesi ".

In 1748, Maria Agnesi published her famous summation treatise Instituzioni analitiche ad uso della gioventù italiana, in which the curve was named according to Grandi, ' versiera '.

This curve was later studied by one of the few female scientists to achieve a degree, Maria Gaetana Agnesi.

Through a mistranslation by the translator of her work into English who mistook the term " witch " ( for Grandi's term, this curve became known in English as the witch of Agnesi.

Maria Gaetana Agnesi ( May 16, 1718 – January 9, 1799 ) was an Italian mathematician and philosopher.

Maria Teresa Agnesi Pinottini, clavicembalist and composer, was her sister.

Bust of Maria Gaetana Agnesi in Milan.

" Maria Gaetana Agnesi: Mathematics and the making of the Catholic Enlightenment.

The world of Maria Gaetana Agnesi, mathematician of God.

* January 9 – Maria Gaetana Agnesi, an Italian mathematician ( b. 1718 )

* May 16 – Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian mathematician ( d. 1799 )

His pupils included Luigi Agnesi, Jean-Delphin Alard, Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga, Louise Bertin, William Cusins, Julius Eichberg, Ferdinand Hérold, Frantz Jehin-Prume, Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens, Adolphe Samuel, and Charles-Marie Widor.

In mathematics, the witch of Agnesi (), sometimes called the witch of Maria Agnesi is the curve defined as follows.

Different modern works about Agnesi and about the curve suggest slightly different guesses how exactly this mistranslation happened.

* June 13 – Composer Maria Teresa Agnesi marries Pier Antonio Pinottini.

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and he wrote also the masterpiece of frontier humor, `` The Big Bear Of Arkansas '', in which earthy realism is placed alongside the exaggeration of the backwoods tall-tale and the awe with which man contemplates the grandeur and the mysteries of nature.

Mr. Burlingham, -- `` C.C.B. '' -- wrote to me once about an old friend of mine, S. K. Ratcliffe, whom I had first met in London in 1914 and who also came out for a week-end in Weston.

It also happened with the Inauguration, which was not re-run at all during the evening hours, and I wrote to the TV editor of the Times.

Not content to create only the music and lyrics, Noel Coward also wrote the book and directed Sail Away ( Capitol WAO 1643 ; ;

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He also wrote:

While accompanying Mallowan on countless archaeological trips ( spending up to 3 – 4 months at a time in Syria and Iraq at excavation sites at Ur, Ninevah, Tell Arpachiyah, Chagar Bazar, Tell Brak, and Nimrud ), Christie not only wrote novels and short stories, but also contributed work to the archaeological sites, more specifically to the archaeological restoration and labeling of ancient exhibits which includes tasks such as cleaning and conserving delicate ivory pieces, reconstructing pottery, developing photos from early excavations which later led to taking photographs of the site and its findings, and taking field notes.

In addition, he wrote that each person will experience a world of their own, though he also wrote that the dream world doesn't necessarily have to be solipsistic as different selves may be able to communicate with each other by dream telepathy.

In 1904, he also wrote a novel, Born Again, clearly inspired by the popular Utopian fantasy Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy, an early harbinger of the metaphysical turn his career would take with the theory of Lawsonomy.

Ambrose also wrote a treatise by the name of " The Goodness of Death ".

Alcott also wrote a series patterned after the work of German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe which were eventually published in the Transcendentalists ' journal, The Dial.

He also wrote a Vita Abbonis, abbatis Floriacensis, the last of a series of lives of the abbots of Fleury, all of which, except the life of Abbo, have been lost.

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It was said he had a son, called Stephanus, who also wrote comedies.

There is also some evidence that, during his old age, he wrote plays in the style of New Comedy.

Andronicus wrote a work upon Aristotle, the fifth book of which contained a complete list of the philosopher's writings, and he also wrote commentaries upon the Physics, Ethics, and Categories.

The decimal point notation was introduced by Sind ibn Ali, he also wrote the earliest treatise on Arabic numerals.

From 1847 he was engaged in editing the Handwörterbuch der reinen und angewandten Chemie ( Dictionary of Pure and Applied Chemistry ) edited by Justus von Liebig, Wöhler, and Johann Christian Poggendorff, and he also wrote an important textbook.

He also wrote controversial criticisms of the British class structure which seemed to conflict with his promotion of Anglo-American friendship.

In addition to Triumphant Democracy ( 1886 ), and The Gospel of Wealth ( 1889 ), he also wrote An American Four-in-hand in Britain ( 1883 ), Round the World ( 1884 ), The Empire of Business ( 1902 ), The Secret of Business is the Management of Men ( 1903 ), James Watt ( 1905 ) in the Famous Scots Series, Problems of Today ( 1907 ), and his posthumously published autobiography Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie ( 1920 ).

He also wrote ' Ends and Means ' about his views on the technique.

Sir Stafford Cripps, George Bernard Shaw, Henry Irving and other stage grandees, Lord Lytton and other eminent people of the era also wrote positive appreciations of his work after taking lessons with Alexander.