Sophie's diary

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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 fictionalised 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 who became the first and only woman in history to make a substantial contri…

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Title Statements

Full title :Sophie's diary / Dora Musielak.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2012.
Edition:2nd ed

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Mathematical Association of America
Place of Publication:Washington, D.C
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2012.

Notes

"A mathematical novel"--Cover.

The Physical Object

Description:ix, 279 pages : : illustrations, map ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780883855775, 0883855771, 9781614445104, 1614445109
oclc:ocn798811573
LC Classification:PS3613.U843
Dewey Decimal:813/.6

Paris, France,1789 : -- Awakening ; -- Paris, France, 1790 : -- Discovery -- Paris, France, 1791 : -- Introspection -- Paris, France, 1792 : -- Under siege -- Paris, France, 1793 : -- Upon the threshold -- Intellectual discovery -- Paris, France, 1794 : -- Knocking on heaven's door.

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Fiction France France -- Fiction. -- History -- 1789-1… Germain, Sophie History Mathématiciennes -- Romans, nouvelles, … Women mathematicians Women mathematicians -- Fiction. -- Fra…