Sophie's diary

by Musielak, Dora

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Title Statements

Full title :Sophie's diary / Dora Musielak.

Summary

Sophie'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#x92;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.

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.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (279 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781614445104, 1614445109
oclc:ocn793979300
LC Classification:PS3613.U843
Dewey Decimal:813.54

Cover -- copyright page -- title page -- 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 -- Appendices -- Author's Note -- Sophie Germain Biographical Sketch -- Marie-Sophie Germain Timeline -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgements -- Index

Subjects

Electronic books Fiction FICTION -- General France France -- Fiction. -- History -- 1789-1… Germain, Sophie History Mathématiciennes -- Romans, nouvelles, … MATHEMATICS -- Recreations & Games Women mathematicians Women mathematicians -- Fiction. -- Fra…