Sophie Germain 1 Articles . Sophie Germain: The Mathematics Of Elasticity. March 20, ... Germain enlisted a family friend in the army to check that Gauss had not been harmed.

Math's Hidden Woman Following is the true story of Sophie Germain, an 18th-century woman who assumed a man's identity in order to pursue her passion—attempting to prove Fermat's Last Theorem.

When a 13-year old Marie-Sophie Germain was stuck in the house because of the chaotic revolution on the streets of Paris in 1789, she found a refuge for her active mind: her father’s mathemat… ...

The boundary-breaking career of mathematician Sophie Germain, born in 1776, began during the French Revolution, when the chaos of Paris confined the then teenage Germain to her home — and to her ...

And Germain herself used the proof she has been known for, called Sophie Germain’s Theorem, to show that the theorem is true for any prime n less than 100, if none of x, y, or z is divisible by n.

Sophie Germain (1776–1831) was the first woman known to have discovered significant mathematical theorems. Sophie Germain corresponded for four years with Carl Friedrich Gauss, one of the ...

Nothing Stopped Sophie: The Story of Unshakable Mathematician Sophie Germain Cheryl Bardoe, illus. by Barbara McClintock. Little, Brown, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-316-27820-1 ...