Laura Toti Rigatelli (1941-2023) was an Italian historian of mathematics, founder of the Center for Medieval Mathematics at the University of Siena,[1] biographer of Évariste Galois,[2] and author of many books on the history of mathematics.
[3] Toti Rigatelli is originally from Florence.
[1] Toti Rigatelli became a corresponding member of the International Academy of the History of Science in 1993.
[4] A festschrift, Il sogno di Galois: Scritti di storia della matematica dedicati a Laura Toti Rigatelli per il suo 60º compleanno, was published by the Center for Medieval Mathematics in 2003, in honor of her 60th birthday; it was edited by Raffaella Franci, Paolo Pagli, and Annalisa Simi.
Toti Rigatelli is the author and editor of many books in Italian on the history of mathematics,[3] including a biography of Évariste Galois, Matematica sulle barricate: vita di Evariste Galois [To take up arms for mathematics: the life of Evariste Galois] (1993), which was translated into English as Évariste Galois 1811–1832 by John Denton and published by Birkhäuser in 1996.