LEADER 02869nam 22005652 450 001 9910823189403321 005 20151002020704.0 010 $a1-61444-510-9 035 $a(CKB)2560000000081412 035 $a(OCoLC)793979300 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10722468 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000667069 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11440251 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000667069 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10683807 035 $a(PQKB)11119268 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781614445104 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3330357 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10722468 035 $a(OCoLC)929120378 035 $a(RPAM)17198965 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3330357 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000081412 100 $a20120321d2012|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aSophie's diary /$fDora Musielak$b[electronic resource] 205 $a2nd ed. 210 1$aWashington :$cMathematical Association of America,$d2012. 215 $a1 online resource (ix, 279 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aSpectrum series 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). 311 $a0-88385-577-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 269-274) and index. 330 $aSophie's Diary: A Mathematical Novel is a work of fiction inspired by French mathematician Sophie Germain. It chronicles the coming of age of a teenager learning mathematics on her own, growing up during the most turbulent years of the French Revolution. The fictionalized diary uses mathematics, intertwined with historically-accurate accounts of the social chaos that reigned in Paris between 1789 and 1794, to describe the learning journey of a remarkable girl that became the first and only woman in history to make a substantial contribution to the proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem. Sophie Germain was born in Paris in 1776. Little is known about her childhood or about her initiation into mathematics. Her first biographers wrote that, as a young woman, she assumed the name of a male student at the Ecole Polytechnique to submit her own work to Lagrange. Yet, no biography has explained how Germain studied mathematics before that time to encourage such boldness. Sophie's Diary is an attempt to put in perspective how a self-taught girl could have acquired the knowledge to enter the world of Lagrange's analysis. 410 0$aMAA spectrum. 606 $aWomen mathematicians$zFrance$vFiction 607 $aFrance$xHistory$y1789-1793$vFiction 615 0$aWomen mathematicians 676 $a813/.6 700 $aMusielak$b Dora$0880816 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910823189403321 996 $aSophie's diary$93965346 997 $aUNINA