Nothing Stopped Sophie

2018-06-12 Juvenile Nonfiction

Author : Cheryl Bardoe
Release : 2018-06-12
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 297/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Nothing Stopped Sophie by : Cheryl Bardoe

Download or read book Nothing Stopped Sophie written by Cheryl Bardoe. This book was released on 2018-06-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of eighteenth-century mathematician Sophie Germain, who solved the unsolvable to achieve her dream. When her parents took away her candles to keep their young daughter from studying math...nothing stopped Sophie. When a professor discovered that the homework sent to him under a male pen name came from a woman...nothing stopped Sophie. And when she tackled a math problem that male scholars said would be impossible to solve...still, nothing stopped Sophie. For six years Sophie Germain used her love of math and her undeniable determination to test equations that would predict patterns of vibrations. She eventually became the first woman to win a grand prize from France's prestigious Academy of Sciences for her formula, which laid the groundwork for much of modern architecture (and can be seen in the book's illustrations). Award-winning author Cheryl Bardoe's inspiring and poetic text is brought to life by acclaimed artist Barbara McClintock's intricate pen-and-ink, watercolor, and collage illustrations in this true story about a woman who let nothing stop her.

Sophie Germain

1980-10-31 History

Author : L.L. Bucciarelli
Release : 1980-10-31
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 356/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Sophie Germain by : L.L. Bucciarelli

Download or read book Sophie Germain written by L.L. Bucciarelli. This book was released on 1980-10-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why should the story of a woman's role in the development of a scientific theory be written? Is it to celebrate, as some have done, the heroism of a woman's struggle in a man's world? Or is it, rather~to demonstrate that gender is irrelevant to the march of scientific ideas? This book hopes to do neither. Rather, it intends to do justice both to the professional life of a woman in science and to the development of the theory with which she was engaged. Technically, this essay centers on Sophie Germain's analysis of the modes of vibration of elastic surfaces, work which won a competition set by the French Academy of Sciences in 1809. It also evaluates related work on the mathematical theory of elasticity done by men of the Academy. Biographically, it is about a woman who believed in the greatness of science and strove, with some measure of success, to participate in that noble, but wholly male-dominated, enterprise. It explores her failures, analyzes her success, and describes how the members of the Parisian scientific community dealt with her offerings, contributions and demands.

Sophie Germain

2020-03-23 Mathematics

Author : Dora Musielak
Release : 2020-03-23
Genre : Mathematics
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Book Rating : 75X/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Sophie Germain written by Dora Musielak. This book was released on 2020-03-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography of the mathematician, Sophie Germain, paints a rich portrait of a brilliant and complex woman, the mathematics she developed, her associations with Gauss, Legendre, and other leading researchers, and the tumultuous times in which she lived. 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 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. 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.

Prime Mystery

2015-01-23 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Dora E. Musielak
Release : 2015-01-23
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 028/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Prime Mystery written by Dora E. Musielak. This book was released on 2015-01-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discovered by Lagrange, Sophie Germain (1776-1831) 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 vibration 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, she almost single-handedly changed the notion of the woman scholar. Sophie Germain was the first woman to win the prize of mathematics from the French Academy of Sciences. She is also the first and only woman who contributed to the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem. Prime Mystery: The Life and Mathematics of Sophie Germain 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 Prime Mystery, author 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.

Sophie Germain

2008 Mathematicians

Author : Stephen Ornes
Release : 2008
Genre : Mathematicians
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 622/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Sophie Germain written by Stephen Ornes. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sophie Germain was born with a natural talent and a love for mathematics-but she was also born at a time when it was deemed unacceptable for a woman to pursue serious intellectual study. She was determined, though, and would not let anything stand in her pursuit of mathematics. Through coincidence and ingenuity, Germain managed to pursue an education at a prestigious institution under an assumed name, then upon discovery, won over many doubters with her skill and passion. It was a problem involving vibrating plates, though, in which Germain found her greatest challenge. She spent years trying to explain natural phenomena with mathematics, persevering against failures and prejudice, ultimately opening a new branch of applied mathematics and securing her place in history. Book jacket.

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