Sophie Germain Revolutionary Mathematician
Sophie 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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2020, 2020
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. 2020 |
| Series: | Springer Biographies
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Unforgettable 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