Google fetes Italian mathematician Agnesi with 'math' doodle

Google on Friday feted Italian mathematician and philosopher Maria Gaetana Agnesi with a doodle marking what would have been her 296th birthday.

Visitors to Google's homepage were greeted with an animated doodle with mathematical concepts such as angles and waves.

Agnesi was depicted in one of the Os in "Google," her eyes tracking the doodle's movements.

Clicking on the doodle will take the visitor to a Google Search Results page for "Maria Gaetana Agnesi."

Agnesi was born on May 16, 1718 in Milan, Italy and died on Jan. 9, 1799.

She is credited with writing the first book that discussed both differential mathematics and integral calculus mathematics.

In 1750, she was appointed by Pope Benedict XIV to the chair of mathematics and natural philosophy and physics at Bologna, although she never served.

This made her the second woman to be granted professorship at a university, after Laura Bassi. — Joel Locsin/JDS, GMA News