Titlebook: Sophie Germain; Revolutionary Mathem Dora Musielak Book 2020Latest edition The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive

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Unforgettable Childhood,en. That was a time when France was the most powerful country in Europe, and its cultural influence was such that nobles, monarchs, and the educated people in many other countries often spoke elegant French instead of their native languages.

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Chladni and His Acoustic Experiments,e learned community in Paris was once again vibrant, spurred by the support of Napoléon. The first graduates from the École Polytechnique were working alongside senior researchers, paving new roads in applied mathematics and physics. Scientists from abroad were descending in Paris to learn from the

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Experiments with Vibrating Plates,oblem. She had to build especial plates to carry out her own experiments. Her memoir of 1825 begins with a review of the relevant literature, citing papers by Euler, Bernoulli, Lagrange, Chladni, Poisson, Navier, Savart, and Italian physicist Giordano Riccati.

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Elasticity Theory After Germain,e first fourth-order partial differential equation now known as the Germain-Lagrange equation. Much more work had yet to be done, of course. The governing equation for the equilibrium of thin elastic plates was derived from that basic formulation.

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,Germain and Fermat’s Last Theorem, (last) theorem of Fermat as the topic for the 1818 contest of mathematics. A happy coincidence? Germain kept her feelings secret, or at least there are no written words to shed light on her intellectual delight, as the new competition would carry her back to her first love—number theory. It would g

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The Last Years,the throne as King Charles X of France. In the first few months of his rule, the government passed a series of laws that bolstered the power of the nobility and clergy, which met with particular public disapproval. This reign dramatized the failure of the Bourbons, after their restoration, to reconc

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2365-0613 rmat’s Last Theorem.Includes many lesser-known facts about S.This biography of the mathematician, Sophie Germain, paints a rich portrait of a brilliant and complex woman, the mathematics she developed, her associations with Gauss, Legendre, and other leading researchers, and the tumultuous times in