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Italian historian of mathematics

Laura Toti Rigatelli (1941-2023) was an Italian historian of mathematics, founder of the Center for Medieval Mathematics at the University of Siena, biographer of Évariste Galois, and author of many books on the history of mathematics.

Toti Rigatelli is originally from Florence.

Recognition

Toti Rigatelli became a corresponding member of the International Academy of the History of Science in 1993.

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, including a biography of Évariste Galois, Matematica sulle barricate: vita di Evariste Galois (1993), which was translated into English as Évariste Galois 1811–1832 by John Denton and published by Birkhäuser in 1996.

Some of her other books include:

  • Storia della teoria delle equazioni algebriche (with Raffaela Franci, 1979)
  • La trattatistica matematica del rinascimento senese (with Raffaela Franci, 1981)
  • Introduzione all'aritmetica mercantile del Medioevo e del Rinascimento (with Raffaela Franci, 1982)
  • Fonti per la storia della matematica : aritmetica, geometria, algebra, analisi infinitesimale, calcolo delle probabilità, logica (with Umberto Bottazzini and Paolo Freguglia, 1982)
  • François-Vincent Raspail : una vita per la medicina e la rivoluzione (1997)
  • Lous-Auguste Blanqui: una vita difficile (2007)
  • Sophie Germain, una matematica dimenticata (2007)
  • Évariste Galois: morte di un matematico (with Paolo Pagli, 2007)
  • Vagabondaggi di un genio (2008)
  • Renato Caccioppoli: tra mito e storia (with Romano Gatto, 2009)
  • Matematica e teatro (2010)

References

  1. ^ "Toti Rigatelli, Laura", Festivalettura (in English and Italian), 2011, retrieved 2020-09-11
  2. ^ Reviews of Évariste Galois 1811–1832:
  3. ^ "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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