Title: Sophie's diary
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.
Subjects: Women mathematicians, Fiction, History, Fiction, historical, general, France, fiction
Places: France
People: Sophie Germain (1776-1831)
Time periods: 1789-1793