Sophie Germain
Sophie Germain | |
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| Born | 1 Apryle 1776 Rue Saint-Denis, Paris, Fraunce |
| Dee'd | 27 Juin 1831 (aged 55) Paris, Fraunce |
| Naitionality | French |
| Kent for | Elasticity theory an nummer theory (e.g. Sophie Germain prime) |
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| Fields | Mathematician an philosopher |
| Academic advisors | Carl Friedrich Gauss |
Marie-Sophie Germain (1776 – 1831) wis a French mathematician who made important contributions tae geometry an nummer theory.
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[eedit | eedit soorce]She won a prize from the French Academy o Sciences.
The Sophie Germain prime an Crater Germain on Venus are namit after her.
Further readin
[eedit | eedit soorce]- Sampson, J. H. (1990). "Sophie Germain and the Theory of Numbers". Archive for History of Exact Sciences. 41 (2): 157–161.
- Petrovich, Vesna Crnjanski (1999). "Women and the Paris Academy of Sciences". Eighteenth-Century Studies. 32 (3): 383–390.
- Del Centina, Andrea (2005). "Letters of Sophie Germain preserved in Florence". Historia Mathematica. 32 (1): 60–75.
- Del Centina, Andrea (2008). "Unpublished manuscripts of Sophie Germain and a revaluation of her work on Fermat's Last Theorem". Archive for History of Exact Sciences. 62 (4): 349–392.
External links
[eedit | eedit soorce]- Sophie Germain at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Sophie Germain", MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews.
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