Agnesi, Maria Gætana (Agne`si, Maria Gætana) , a native of Milan, a woman of extraordinary ability and attainments, prelected for her father in mathematics in the University of Bologna under sanction of the Pope; died a nun at her birthplace (1718‒1799).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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