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María Andrea Casamayor

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Citizenship
  
Spain

Fields
  
Mathematics

Resting place
  
Zaragoza

Nationality
  
Spanish

Field
  
Mathematics

María Andrea Casamayor httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthu

Died
  
23 October 1780, Zaragoza, Spain

María Andrea Casamayor y de la Coma (1700–1780) was a Spanish mathematician. She is one of few women scientists and mathematicians who worked in 18th century Spain.

She wrote and published two scientific books in mathematics, which were used in contemporary Spanish schools. Her work is thought to be the only scientific work extant from a Spanish female scientist in the 18th century.

Works

  • Tirocinio aritmético (1738)
  • El para sí solo
  • References

    María Andrea Casamayor Wikipedia