María Andrea Casamayor

María Andrea Casamayor
Born	c. 1700 Zaragoza, Spain
Died	October 23, 1780 Zaragoza, Spain
Resting place	Parroquia del Pilar, Zaragoza, Spain
Citizenship	Spain
Nationality	Spanish
Fields	Mathematics

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.^[1]

Works

• Tirocinio aritmético (1738)
• El para sí solo

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