LEADER 03594nam 22006135 450 001 9910483748903321 005 20251202141311.0 010 $a3-030-38375-X 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-38375-6 035 $a(CKB)4100000010770897 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-38375-6 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6144688 035 $a(PPN)243227434 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6144651 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000010770897 100 $a20200323d2020 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSophie Germain $eRevolutionary Mathematician /$fby Dora Musielak 205 $a2nd ed. 2020. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Springer,$d2020. 215 $a1 online resource (XVII, 254 p. 54 illus., 7 illus. in color.) 225 1 $aSpringer Biographies,$x2365-0621 311 08$a3-030-38374-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aUnforgettable 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. 330 $aSophie Germain stood right between Gauss and Legendre, and both publicly recognized her scientific efforts. Unlike her female predecessors and contemporaries, Sophie Germain was an impressive mathematician and made lasting contributions to both number theory and the theories of plate vibrations and elasticity. She was able to walk with ease across the bridge between the fields of pure mathematics and engineering physics. Though isolated and snubbed by her peers, Sophie Germain was the first woman to win the prize of mathematics from the French Academy of Sciences. She is the only woman who contributed to the proof of Fermat?s Last Theorem. Sophie Germain ? Revolutionary Mathematician paints a rich portrait of the brilliant and complex woman, including the mathematics she developed, her associations with Gauss, Legendre, and other leading researchers, and the tumultuous times in which she lived. In this unique biography, Dora Musielak has done the impossible?she has chronicled Sophie Germain?s brilliance through her life and work in mathematics, in a way that is simultaneously informative, comprehensive, and accurate. 410 0$aSpringer Biographies,$x2365-0621 606 $aMathematics 606 $aHistory 606 $aPhysics$xPhilosophy 606 $aAcoustics 606 $aHistory of Mathematical Sciences 606 $aPhilosophical Foundations of Physics and Astronomy 606 $aAcoustics 615 0$aMathematics. 615 0$aHistory. 615 0$aPhysics$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aAcoustics. 615 14$aHistory of Mathematical Sciences. 615 24$aPhilosophical Foundations of Physics and Astronomy. 615 24$aAcoustics. 676 $a510.9 700 $aMusielak$b Dora$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0880816 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910483748903321 996 $aSophie Germain$92073384 997 $aUNINA