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Dewey Class	510.9
Title	Sophie Germain ([EBook]) : Revolutionary Mathematician / by Dora Musielak.
Author	Musielak, Dora
Other name(s)	SpringerLink (Online service)
Edition statement	2nd ed. 2020.
Publication	Cham : Springer International Publishing , 2020.
Physical Details	XVII, 254 p. 54 illus., 7 illus. in color. : online resource.
Series	Springer Biographies 2365-0613
ISBN	9783030383756
Summary Note	Sophie Germain stood right between Gauss and Legendre, and both publicly recognized her scientific efforts. Unlike her female predecessors and contemporaries, Sophie Germain was an impressive mathematician and made lasting contributions to both number theory and the theories of plate vibrations and elasticity. She was able to walk with ease across the bridge between the fields of pure mathematics and engineering physics. Though isolated and snubbed by her peers, Sophie Germain was the first woman to win the prize of mathematics from the French Academy of Sciences. She is the only woman who contributed to the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem. Sophie Germain - Revolutionary Mathematician paints a rich portrait of the brilliant and complex woman, including the mathematics she developed, her associations with Gauss, Legendre, and other leading researchers, and the tumultuous times in which she lived. In this unique biography, Dora Musielak has done the impossible-she has chronicled Sophie Germain's brilliance through her life and work in mathematics, in a way that is simultaneously informative, comprehensive, and accurate.:
Contents note	Unforgettable Childhood -- Lessons from l'École Polytechnique -- Sophie's Sublime Arithmetica -- Chladni and His Acoustic Experiments -- Euler and the Bernoullis -- Germain and Her Biharmonic Equation -- Experiments with Vibrating Plates -- Elasticity Theory After Germain -- Germain and Fermat's Last Theorem -- Pensées de Germain -- Friends, Rivals, and Mentors -- List of Illustrations -- The Last Years -- Unanswered Questions -- Princess of Mathematics -- Germain-Gauss Correspondence -- A Bibliography on Sophie Germain -- Illustration Credits.-Index.
Mode of acces to digital resource	Digital book. Cham Springer Nature 2020. - Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: Internet Explorer 6.0 (or higher) or Firefox 2.0 (or higher). Available as searchable text in PDF format
System details note	Online access to this digital book is restricted to subscription institutions through IP address (only for SISSA internal users).
Internet Site	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38375-6
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Acoustics . History . History of Mathematical Sciences . Mathematics . Physics . Authors: author . Musielak, Dora . Corporate Authors: SpringerLink (Online service) . Series: Springer Biographies . Classification: 510.9 . 510.9 (DDC 23) .

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