Faustina Pignatelli Carafa, princess of Colubrano, was an Italian mathematician and scientist from Naples who lived from 1705 to 1769. She became the second woman, after the Bolognese physicist Laura Bassi, to be elected to the Academy of Sciences of Bologna, on 20 November 1732. In 1734 she published a paper titled Problemata Mathematica in the German scientific journal Nova Acta Eruditorum, written entirely in Latin and issued under the name anonima napolitana, meaning anonymous female from Naples. Educated alongside her brother Peter by Nicola De Martino, she was instrumental in introducing the theories of Isaac Newton to Naples, took an important part in the scientific debate in Italy and corresponded with the French Academy of Sciences. Francesco Maria Zanotti, secretary of the Academy of Sciences of Bologna, named her a gifted mathematician in 1745.
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