Eighteenth-century mathematician Maria Gaetana Agnesi’s talent for languages let her see math in a new way. “The Witch of Agnesi” isn’t her, though. It’s a curve, described in her book Analytical ...

It's a fun little moment each day, pondering the new Google doodle, seeing which famous artist or scientist or thing Google has elected to honour. On May 16 it was mathematics' turn, with the ...

The witch of Agnesi, you may be disappointed to know, is a curve that math students generally learn about in calculus class. It doesn’t look much like a witch, or a hat or even a broomstick. It’s ...