DSB, V, 375-376.<\/i><\/p>\n
First edition, posthumous.<\/span><\/p>\n Offprint from : Journal de Math\u00e9matiques pures et appliqu\u00e9es<\/i>, 3rd series, volume VI, 1880.<\/p>\n Sophie Germain (1776-1831) was the most famous French mathematician of the 19th<\/sup> century. She kept up an important correspondence with Legendre and Gauss.<\/p>\n “Sophie Germain, France’s greatest female mathematician prior to the present era… After teaching herself Latin and Greek, she read Newton and Euler despite her parent’s opposition to a career in mathematics… Correspondence with great scholars became the means by which she obtained her higher education in mathematics, literature, biology, and philosophy\u2026One of Sophie Germain\u2019s theorems is related to the baffling and still unsolved problem of obtaining a general proof of \u2018Fermat\u2019s last theorem\u2019\u2026 Parallel with and subsequent to her pure mathematical research she also made contributions to the applied mathematics of acoustics and elasticity\u201d (DSB).<\/p>\n “The appearance in print of Sophie Germain\u2019s M\u00e9moire sur l\u2019emploi de l\u2019\u00e9paisseur dans la th\u00e9orie des surfaces \u00e9lastiques (Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1880) followed Stupuy\u2019s publication of her \u0152uvres philosophiques in 1879. The cover page of Sophie Germain\u2019s manuscript, which until 1879 had been closeted away Prony\u2019s papers in the Archives de l\u2019\u00c9cole des Ponts et Chauss\u00e9es, indicates that Poisson alone had perused the work. Her manuscript is now held at the Archives of the Academy of Sciences, Paris” (Bucciarelli, An Essay in the History of the Theory of Elasticity, p. 141).<\/p>\n Publisher’s inscription on cover “[\u00e0] Monsieur le baron de Blainvilliers, conseiller \u00e0 la cour des comptes, hommage de l’\u00e9diteur”.<\/p>\n Some missing part on cover, and top cover detached.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 4to (285 x 225 mm) 64 pp. Blue wrappers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":72875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[550],"product_tag":[1330,1235],"class_list":{"0":"post-72878","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-science","7":"product_tag-mathematics","8":"product_tag-women","9":"pa_auteur-germain-sophie-2","10":"pa_type-de-livre-printed-book","12":"first","13":"outofstock","14":"shipping-taxable","15":"purchasable","16":"product-type-simple"},"acf":{"artist":" Sophie GERMAIN","chapeau":"The most eminent French female mathematician of the 19th century","adresse_bibliographique":"Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1880","book_type":"Printed book","provenance":"","afficher_prix":""},"yoast_head":"\n