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Saturday, September 28, 2013

Historical Sketch Report Form of Sophie Germain


Created by Ahmad Apriyanto, Novi Handayani, Iis Rosita 
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Mathematician’s Name : Sophie Germain (so–FEE   zhair–MAN)
Date of Birth : April 1st, 1776
Place of Birth : French
Date of Death : Juni 27th, 1831
Place of Death : French
The events in the mathematician’s life – date also if known
1.    When she was children, her parents didn’t allow her to learn mathematics
2.    She was very interested in Archimedes’ amazing invention
3.    When she was 18, she pretended to be a man with the name of Monsieour LeBlanc to study because at that time woman didn’t allow to learn in college. She liked become students of Lagrange
4.    Sophie died because of breast cancer
The accomplishments in mathematics
1.    In 1816 , she won grand prize from the french academy for her work on the law of vibrating elastic surfaces
2.    Germain used this result to prove the first case of Fermat's Last Theorem for all odd primes p<100
3.    Germain made the Fermet’s theory become the shopisticated one. Germain proved that if x, y, and z are integers and if x5 + y5 = z5 then either x, y, or z must be divisible by 5. Germain's theorem is a major step toward proving Fermat's last theorem for the case where n equals 5" (Dalmedico 119). Fermat's last theorem says that if x, y, z, and n are integers then xn + yn = zn cannot be solved for any n greater than 2.
Three facts of  interest your mathematicians
1.    She was woman mathematicians that still rarely at that time
2.    She used man’s name to collect paper to Lagrange
3.    She got scholarship in college after Gauss and Lagrange open minded thinking about woman’s mathematicians
Sources
R. Luetta & R. Wilbert. (1990). Mathematicians Are People, Too. USA: Dale Seymour Publication
Swift, A. (1995). Shopie Germanie. Retrieved on September 9th 2013 from http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/germain.htm



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