Sophie's diary
By: Dora Musielak
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: MAA spectrum
Publisher: Mathematical Association of America
Published: 2012
Place of publication: [Washington, D.C.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9780883855775
Subjects: Women mathematicians; Fiction; History
Description: A work of fiction inspired by French mathematician Sophie Germain. It chronicles the coming of age of a teenager learning mathematics on her own, growing up during the most turbulent years of the French Revolution. The fictionalised diary uses mathematics, intertwined with historically-accurate accounts of the social chaos that reigned in Paris between 1789 and 1794, to describe the learning journey of a remarkable girl who became the first and only woman in history to make a substantial contribution to the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.
Notes: "A mathematical novel"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-274) and index.