Sophie Germain
French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher (1776-1831)
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French mathematician who cracked elasticity theory and made moves on Fermat's Last Theorem from her father's library, using a fake male name to correspond with Gauss and Lagrange because, well, 18th-century France.
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Marie-Sophie Germain was a French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher. Despite initial opposition from her parents and difficulties presented by society, she gained education from books in her father's library, including ones by Euler, and from correspondence under the pseudonym of Monsieur Le Blanc with famous mathematicians, such as Lagrange, Legendre, and Gauss. One of the pioneers of elasticity theory, she won the grand prize from the Paris Academy of Sciences for her essay on the subject. Her work on Fermat's Last Theorem provided a foundation for mathematicians exploring the subjec…
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