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Maria Agnesi, the greatest female mathematician you've never heard of

  • Written by Richard Gunderman, Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
Agnesi was the first woman to write a mathematics textbook.AlexeyMaltsev/shutterstock.com

The outmoded gender stereotype that women lack mathematical ability suffered a major blow in 2014, when Maryam Mirzakhani became the first woman to receive the Fields Medal, math’s most prestigious award.

An equally important blow was struck by an Italian...

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