Anna Barbara Reinhart facts for kids
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Anna Barbara Reinhart (born July 12, 1730 – died January 5, 1796) was a brilliant Swiss mathematician. She was known around the world for her math skills during her time.
Biography
Anna Barbara Reinhart was born in Switzerland. She was the third child and first daughter of Salomon Reinhart and Anna Steiner. Her father was a councilor.
When she was a child, Anna had a serious accident. She fell off her horse at a wedding party. This accident caused her to spend a lot of time in bed.
Her doctor, Johann Heinrich Hegner, noticed something special about her. He saw that she was very good at math. So, he started teaching her.
Anna then studied mathematics using books by famous mathematicians. Some of these included Leonhard Euler, Gabriel Cramer, Pieter van Musschenbroek, and Jérôme Lalande.
Anna Barbara Reinhart wrote letters to many mathematicians of her time. She also welcomed them as visitors to her home. She was a math teacher herself. She taught students like Ulrich Hegner and Heinrich Bosshard von Rümikon.
People say she helped edit the works of other mathematicians. She also wrote her own notes about a very famous book. This book was Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica by Isaac Newton. Sadly, her notes were lost after she died. However, some of her letters to Christoph Jezler were saved.
Other mathematicians admired Anna's work. For example, Daniel Bernoulli praised her. He said she made important improvements to a math problem called the "pursuit curve."
Anna Reinhart passed away in 1796 when she was 66 years old. She died from gout and problems from her childhood accident. She never fully recovered from that fall.
Legacy
In 2003, her hometown of Winterthur in Zurich, Switzerland honored her. They named a street after her.
See also
In Spanish: Anna Barbara Reinhart para niños
