Laura Toti Rigatelli

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]

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.

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)