Sophie Germain (1776-1831) was one of the first distinguished
female mathematicians of the modern era. Largely self-taught, she
won the admiration and friendship of Legendre and Gauss (whose work
also appears in this series). Germain is best known for her work on
number theory, notably Fermat's Last Theorem, but she played an
important part in establishing the foundations of elasticity. This
book, described by her slightly younger contemporary Navier as 'a
work which few men are able to read and which only one woman was
able to write', contains her research on the topic, which was
awarded a prize by the Paris Academy of Sciences. This work was
published in Paris in 1821.
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