Nothing Stopped Sophie : The Story of Unshakable Mathematician Sophie Germain
Cheryl Bardoe
Nothing Stopped Sophie : The Story of Unshakable Mathematician Sophie Germain - New York, United States Little, Brown & Company 12 Jun 2018 - 32 Pages Hardback 260 x 260 x 18mm | 480g
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.
9780316278201 0316278203
813.54 BAR
Nothing Stopped Sophie : The Story of Unshakable Mathematician Sophie Germain - New York, United States Little, Brown & Company 12 Jun 2018 - 32 Pages Hardback 260 x 260 x 18mm | 480g
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.
9780316278201 0316278203
813.54 BAR