Sophie Germain: mathématicienne extraordinaire - Scripps College
Sophie Germain: mathématicienne extraordinaire - Scripps College
Sophie Germain: mathématicienne extraordinaire - Scripps College
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Chapter 3<br />
Ses Oeuvres, Ses Travaux<br />
3.1 La <strong>mathématicienne</strong><br />
Madamoiselle <strong>Sophie</strong> <strong>Germain</strong> est plus connue pour ses travaux mathematiques.<br />
Elle a divisé le dernier théorème de Fermat en deux cas. Avec l’aide<br />
de Legendre, elle a prouvé le premier cas.<br />
<strong>Sophie</strong> <strong>Germain</strong>’s work resulted in a contribution rightly acknowledged<br />
by mathematicians. What she accomplished is embodied<br />
in a theorem (now carrying her name) with which she<br />
showed that for all prime numbers n less than 100, there are no<br />
solutions to x n + y n = z n for the case in which none of the three<br />
numbers x, y, and z is divisible by n. At a time when so little<br />
had been achieved with respect to Fermat’s Last Theorem, her<br />
contribution was clearly significant. (Bucciarelli 86)
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