Maria Gaėtana Agnesi
Maria Gaėtana Agnesi Born: 16 May 1718 in Milan, Habsburg Empire (now Italy) Died: 9 Jan 1799 in Milan, Habsburg Empire (now Italy) Click the picture above to see four larger pictures 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. ... she wrote a commentary on de LHōpitals Traite analytique des section coniques but it has never been published Pope Benedict XIV wrote to Agnesi saying that he had studied mathematics when he was young and could see that her work would bring credit to Italy and to the Academy of Bologna.