Biography:Laura Toti Rigatelli
Laura Toti Rigatelli (born 1941) is an Italian historian of mathematics, founder of the Center for Medieval Mathematics at the University of Siena,[1] biographer of Évariste Galois,[2] and author of many books on the history of mathematics.[3]
Toti Rigatelli is originally from Florence.[1]
Recognition
Toti Rigatelli became a corresponding member of the International Academy of the History of Science in 1993.[4]
A festschrift, Il sogno di Galois: Scritti di storia della matematica dedicati a Laura Toti Rigatelli per il suo 60º compleanno, was published by the Center for Medieval Mathematics in 2003, in honor of her 60th birthday; it was edited by Raffaella Franci, Paolo Pagli, and Annalisa Simi.
Books
Toti Rigatelli is the author and editor of many books in Italian on the history of mathematics,[3] including a biography of Évariste Galois, Matematica sulle barricate: vita di Evariste Galois [To take up arms for mathematics: the life of Evariste Galois] (1993), which was translated into English as Évariste Galois 1811–1832 by John Denton and published by Birkhäuser in 1996.[2]
Some of her other books include:[3]
- Storia della teoria delle equazioni algebriche [History of the theory of algebraic equations] (with Raffaela Franci, 1979)[5]
- La trattatistica matematica del rinascimento senese [The mathematical treatises of the Sienese Renaissance] (with Raffaela Franci, 1981)[6]
- Introduzione all'aritmetica mercantile del Medioevo e del Rinascimento [Introduction to the arithmetic of commerce in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance] (with Raffaela Franci, 1982)[7]
- Fonti per la storia della matematica : aritmetica, geometria, algebra, analisi infinitesimale, calcolo delle probabilità, logica [Sources of the history of mathematics: Arithmetic, geometry, algebra, infinitesimal analysis, probability theory, logic and foundations] (with Umberto Bottazzini and Paolo Freguglia, 1982)[8]
- François-Vincent Raspail : una vita per la medicina e la rivoluzione [François-Vincent Raspail: a life for medicine and revolution] (1997)
- Lous-Auguste Blanqui: una vita difficile [Louis Auguste Blanqui: a difficult life] (2007)
- Sophie Germain, una matematica dimenticata [Sophie Germain, a forgotten mathematician] (2007)
- Évariste Galois: morte di un matematico [Évariste Galois: death of a mathematician] (with Paolo Pagli, 2007)
- Vagabondaggi di un genio [Wanderings of a genius] (2008)
- Renato Caccioppoli: tra mito e storia [Renato Caccioppoli: between myth and history] (with Romano Gatto, 2009)
- Matematica e teatro [Mathematics and theatre] (2010)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Toti Rigatelli, Laura" (in en,it), Festivalettura, 2011, https://archivio.festivaletteratura.it/entita/3038-toti-rigatelli-laura, retrieved 2020-09-11
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Reviews of Évariste Galois 1811–1832:
- Beedgen, Rainer, "none", zbMATH
- "none", Mathematical Reviews, 1997
- Cooke, Roger (March 1998), "none", The American Mathematical Monthly 105 (3): 284–288, doi:10.2307/2589107
- Fletcher, Colin R. (March 1999), "none", The Mathematical Gazette 83 (496): 161–162, doi:10.2307/3618729
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Bibliography of Toti Rigatelli's works, 1968–2009", Retí Medíevalí (University of Naples), http://www.rmoa.unina.it/2483/1/TotiRigatelliLaura-Bibliografia_1968-2009.pdf, retrieved 2020-09-11
- ↑ Laura Toti Rigatelli, International Academy of the History of Science, http://www.aihs-iahs.org/en/node/721, retrieved 2020-09-11
- ↑ Reviews of Storia della teoria delle equazioni algebriche:
- Richter, B., "none", zbMATH
- "none", Mathematical Reviews, 1983
- ↑ Review of La trattatistica matematica del rinascimento senese:
- Neuenschwander, Erwin, "none", zbMATH
- ↑ Reviews of Introduzione all'aritmetica mercantile del Medioevo e del Rinascimento:
- "none", zbMATH
- "none", Mathematical Reviews, 1985
- Bedini, Silvio A. (August 1985), "none", Historia Mathematica 12 (3): 293–295, doi:10.1016/0315-0860(85)90032-1
- ↑ Review of Fonti per la storia della matematica:
- "none", zbMATH
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