Dora Musielak
Sophie's diary
Dora Musielak · 2012
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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 contribution to the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.
Book details
- Year
- 2012
- Language
- English
- Series
- MAA spectrum
- Publisher
- Mathematical Association of America
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 279
- ISBN
- 9780883855775
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