Sofia Marie Germain is a great role model. ¨It matters little who first arrives at an idea, rather what is significant is how far that idea can go.¨This is a great quote representing a great mathematician. It shows how took one idea that wasn't originally hers but she created an additional bases for the creation of her own theorem. Sophie Germain was born on April 1, 1779 in Paris, France. She was the daughter of Ambroise-Francisco Germain and Marie Madeleine Germain. She aswell had two sisters named Marie-Madeleine Germain and Angelique- Ambroise Germain. She had been only 13 years old when the French Revolution occurred and that is the reason why she had to stay indoors because of to the highly inflammable atmosphere in Paris. However, …show more content…
Joseph-Louis Lagrange, was a mathematician at the institute became her mentor. She used a male alias of M. LeBlanc in her correspondence so that people could not figure out that she was a woman. Sophie Germain was one of the most important scientist of her era. She did pioneering work in her field in number theory and her most important work included proving Fermat’s Last Theorem. In 1798, Sophie Germain became interested in number theory after reading the book ‘Theorie des Nombres’ published by the mathematician Adrien-Marie Legendre. Germain sent her some of her own ideas on the subject of number theory and elasticity, which had been published by the mathematician as supplement of the second edition of his original book.After reading Carl Friedrich Gauss’ book ‘Disquisitiones Arithmeticae’, Sophie Germain wrote to the author in 1804 regarding her own ideas in relation to Fermat’s Last Theorem. According to many, Germain’s theories did not have solid proofs and she never got a response from Gauss regarding this subject.} The French Academy of Sciences conducted a mathematics competition in which the contestants had to produce a mathematical explanation in relation to the experiments carried out by the scientist Ernst F.F. Chladni on