Terrible math textbooks for women in the 17th century

I finished Fermat's Enigma last night and was surprised how much I enjoyed a book about math.I've always seen myself as a liberal arts guy, but in the last couple years I've been reading a lot of computer history books that each have some flavor of mathematics. I struggled so much with math in school that it's hard to disassociate with that feeling and appreciate numbers as a cool thing.Coming back to these topics in adulthood is a much different experience, especially when there's no pressure to make a grade. The 17-century amateur mathematicians of the world were basically all doing it as a hobby. These dudes were coming home from work thirsty for theorems.That's the sentiment Susan Rigetti is trying to inspire in her article So You Want to Study Mathematics, which includes a curriculum and reading list that recommends this book.Anyway the book steps through history by way of various mathematicians that came into contact with Fermat's theorem in one way or another. One was Sophie…