The infinite is the chasm in which our thoughts are lost: Reflections on Sophie Germain’s Essays
Sophie Germain was a reputed female mathematician, an independent academia thinker, who lived in France during the first Empire and Bourbon Restauration. She had remarkable contributions to number theory and elasticity theory and she was the first to introduce the concept of mean curvature. She w...
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| Language: | English |
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Publishing House of the Romanian Academy
2020-11-01
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| Series: | Memoirs of the Scientific Sections of the Romanian Academy |
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| Online Access: | http://mss.academiaromana-is.ro/mem_sc_st_2020/20_Glesser_Suceava.pdf |