Tuesday, April 29, 2008

My childhood


Lets see where to begin.... My fathers name is Pietro Agnesi; he married twice after my mothers death. so in saying that I became the oldest of 21 children. My father was a very wealthy nobleman and is the professor of the University of Bologna. I was given privet tutors to learn five different language Greek, Hebrew, Latin, French and Spanish. But in addition to learning different languages I was also being taught philosophy and science. When I was about 13 my father forced me to give speeches in gatherings of his colleagues, I didn't like this one bit. Every chance I got, I tried to pursued him not to let me do this but he never gave up until I turned 20. From all the speeches I gave I gained an idea of publishing my speeches into a book about the Philosophical Propositions. But to my surprise it was about more than just the philosophical propositions, it was about scientific celstial mechanics. Newtons gravitation theory, and elasticity. to my astonishment it would not be the last book I would write.

Friday, April 11, 2008

My successes

I did many things in my life and not I am ready to tell everyone what my accomplishments are an how I get to where I was in my life. I was at another meeting with other academic folks and I was nervous but I managed to give an hour long speech in Latin. I was only nine and I already made a speech in Latin that to was so amazing and overwhelming. When I turned 13 I was able to memorize the languages of; German, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and Spanish.When I was older not to much older but a little I asked my father if I could join a convent; of course he denied my wishes and there for I, then, devoted my time to teach and help my younger brothers and sisters. Although I didn't mind teaching my brothers and sisters, i was sad that i dream, joining a convent, were put on hold.Although I was the first to write a book that discussed both the differential and integral ideas of calculus, that still did not make me happier then I wanted to be. One of my books was sort of a commentary, known as "Traite analytique des sections coniques of the marquis de l'Hôpital" it explained how the curve of the "Witch of Agnesi" or "versiera" meaning to turn. An example of my work looks like this:

173 Find the area between the witch of Agnesi xy2 = 4a2(2a - x) and its asymptote."

Now the formula to solve this is:

y=8a3/x2+4a2

Now when a is any non-zero constant use this formula:

y=1/x2+1

These formulas were first used by B. Williamson, Integral calculus, 7 in 1875. I never had a chance to meet him, but I heard he used it and worked with it in his studies.

Thursday, April 10, 2008

My death was unsuprising

After my father died in 1752, I gave up mathematics altogether. Most people had come to the conclusion that I wasn't all that into math, but I did it because my father had the expectations of his prodigy working with math and dealing with the greater picture of life. I didn't want to be known as wanting the ambition to become a famous mathematician; I wanted to be known for what I contributed to, what I built, and what other people could see I did. But almost as soon as my father died, I devoted my time and money to doing charitable work. I committed my time and ability to help those of the poor. Other than devoting most of my time to charities I also turned to religious studies to find comfort in my self. I built many hospices before I died knowing that they where going to help others in later years. I died in poverty alone in my poorhouse were I spent most of my time and was directing. I died on January 9, 1799. my death was unsurprising to most as well as my self.