Witch of Agnesi Poetry?

Question

For a math project I have to write a poem about the "Witch of Agnesi" graph. Does anyone have any ideas about rhymes or topics I might want to put into my poetry? I don't know what to write about!!

Answer 1

"The "witch of Agnesi" is a curve studied by Maria Agnesi in 1748 in her book Instituzioni analitiche ad uso della gioventù italiana (the first surviving mathematical work written by a woman). The curve is also known as cubique d'Agnesi or agnésienne, and had been studied earlier by Fermat and Guido Grandi in 1703.

"The name "witch" derives from a mistranslation of the term averisera ("versed sine curve," from the Latin vertere, "to turn") in the original work as avversiera ("witch" or "wife of the devil") in an 1801 translation of the work by Cambridge Lucasian Professor of Mathematics John Colson (Gray). "


There once was a woman named Maria...okay, enough of my silliness. Here are some rhyming suggestions. Now you have to do the hard work...

curve -- serve, swerve, nerve, observe, deserve, unnerve

witch -- glitch, hitch, kitsch, niche, pitch, switch, twitch

math -- path, wrath

first -- cursed, nursed, pursed, thirst, versed, worst

Maria -- idea

Okay, I'm done. the rest is up to you.