"One of its problems leads you to construct a singularly gentle and graceful curve. We're told that the curve is called the Witch of Agnesi. But why? There's nothing sinister about its flowing line.
It turns out that one person who worked with this curve was Maria Agnesi, a noted 18th-century Italian mathematician -- a woman mathematician! So she was the Witch."
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Witch of Agnesi?
"One of its problems leads you to construct a singularly gentle and graceful curve. We're told that the curve is called the Witch of Agnesi. But why? There's nothing sinister about its flowing line.It turns out that one person who worked with this curve was Maria Agnesi, a noted 18th-century Italian mathematician -- a woman mathematician! So she was the Witch."
March 12 2010, 20:07:17 UTC 2 years ago
Re: Witch of Agnesi?
wow!good to know!))