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Laura Toti Rigatelli

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Laura Toti Rigatelli (1941-2023) was 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

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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

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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

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  1. ^ a b "Toti Rigatelli, Laura", Festivalettura (in English and Italian), 2011, retrieved 2020-09-11
  2. ^ a b Reviews of Évariste Galois 1811–1832:
  3. ^ a b c "Bibliography of Toti Rigatelli's works, 1968–2009" (PDF), Retí Medíevalí, University of Naples, retrieved 2020-09-11
  4. ^ Laura Toti Rigatelli, International Academy of the History of Science, retrieved 2020-09-11
  5. ^ Reviews of Storia della teoria delle equazioni algebriche:
  6. ^ Review of La trattatistica matematica del rinascimento senese:
  7. ^ Reviews of Introduzione all'aritmetica mercantile del Medioevo e del Rinascimento:
  8. ^ Review of Fonti per la storia della matematica:
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