Sophie’s Diary

Sophie’s Diary
Author: Dora Musielak
Publisher: American Mathematical Society
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2022-08-11
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1470471566

Sophie Germain overcame gender stigmas and a lack of formal education to prove that for all prime exponents less than 100 Case I of Fermat's Last Theorem holds. Hidden behind a man's name, her brilliance as mathematician was first discovered by three of the greatest scholars of the eighteenth century, Lagrange, Gauss, and Legendre. In Sophie's Diary, Germain comes to life through a fictionalized journal that intertwines mathematics with historical descriptions of the brutal events that took place in Paris between 1789 and 1793. This format provides a plausible perspective of how a young Sophie could have learned mathematics on her own—both fascinated by numbers and eager to master tough subjects without a teacher's guidance. Her passion for mathematics is integrated into her personal life as an escape from societal outrage. Sophie's Diary is suitable for a variety of readers—both young and old, mathematicians and novices—who will be inspired and enlightened on a field of study made easy, as told through the intellectual and personal struggles of an exceptional young woman.

Sophie's World

Sophie's World
Author: Jostein Gaarder
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 599
Release: 2007-03-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1466804270

A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.

Sophie Germain

Sophie Germain
Author: Dora Musielak
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2020-03-23
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 303038375X

This biography of the mathematician, Sophie Germain, paints a rich portrait of a brilliant and complex woman, the mathematics she developed, her associations with Gauss, Legendre, and other leading researchers, and the tumultuous times in which she lived. Sophie Germain stood right between Gauss and Legendre, and both publicly recognized her scientific efforts. Unlike her female predecessors and contemporaries, Sophie Germain was an impressive mathematician and made lasting contributions to both number theory and the theories of plate vibrations and elasticity. She was able to walk with ease across the bridge between the fields of pure mathematics and engineering physics. Though isolated and snubbed by her peers, Sophie Germain was the first woman to win the prize of mathematics from the French Academy of Sciences. She is the only woman who contributed to the proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem. In this unique biography, Dora Musielak has done the impossible―she has chronicled Sophie Germain’s brilliance through her life and work in mathematics, in a way that is simultaneously informative, comprehensive, and accurate.

Prime Mystery

Prime Mystery
Author: Dora E. Musielak
Publisher:
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2015-01-23
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781496965028

Discovered by Lagrange, Sophie Germain (1776-1831) stood right between Gauss and Legendre, and both publicly recognized her scientific efforts. Unlike her female predecessors and contemporaries, Sophie Germain was an impressive mathematician and made lasting contributions to both number theory and the theories of vibration and elasticity. She was able to walk with ease across the bridge between the fields of pure mathematics and engineering physics. Though isolated and snubbed by her peers, she almost single-handedly changed the notion of the woman scholar. Sophie Germain was the first woman to win the prize of mathematics from the French Academy of Sciences. She is also the first and only woman who contributed to the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem. Prime Mystery: The Life and Mathematics of Sophie Germain paints a rich portrait of the brilliant and complex woman, including the mathematics she developed, her associations with Gauss, Legendre, and other leading researchers, and the tumultuous times in which she lived. In Prime Mystery, author Dora Musielak has done the impossible. She has chronicled Sophie Germain's brilliance through her life and work in mathematics, in a way that is simultaneously informative, comprehensive, and accurate.

Sophie's Diary: A Mathematical Novel

Sophie's Diary: A Mathematical Novel
Author: Dora Musielak
Publisher: MAA
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2012-05-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0883855771

A fictional account of the coming of age of the French mathematician Sophie Germain.

Kuxan Suum

Kuxan Suum
Author: Dora Musielak
Publisher:
Total Pages: 84
Release: 2008-03
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781434355829

Kuxan Suum, Path to the Center of the Universe is the awe-inspiring story of Da'Lau, a young woman who travels through space in search of knowledge and truth. In this tale of the impossible, the improbable, and the fantastic, the girl crosses planets, nebulas, the Milky Way and other galaxies, describing in her path a vision of the heavens. Throughout her intergalactic voyage, Da'Lau becomes one with the stars, as her transcendental path takes her to the center of the Universe. Kuxan Suum is a metaphor that presents a sketch of human spaceflight, illustrated with stunningly beautiful views of space taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Da'Lau takes us on a journey through our magnificent Universe, highlighting especially the enormous cosmic distances, infinite when compared with respect to our human space-time scale, giving us a perspective of its complexity and size. The thread that stitches Kuxan Suum is its surreal invocation of travel through the cosmos-the sublime, the practical, and the science.

The Notebook Girls

The Notebook Girls
Author: Julia Baskin
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Total Pages: 691
Release: 2008-11-15
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0446550329

We're just a group of normal girls with normal lives. Our notebook is meant to make you laugh—​and make you remember. Everyone likes to think they started the notebook. Sophie claims she stole the idea from two girls in her math class. Courtney still has a death grip on the theory that the notebook was her invention. Lindsey doesn't really care; she's just along for the ride. And Julia never knows what's going on anyway. What we do know is that we started the notebook in freshman year at Stuyvesant High School as a way to keep in contact when our conflicting schedules denied us one another's company. It allowed us to express ourselves and our views of the world in a tone of complete sarcasm, obscenity, and blind honesty. We've spent a significant portion of our adolescence trying to figure out who we are. The notebook is the closest we've come.

Euler

Euler
Author: William Dunham
Publisher: American Mathematical Society
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2022-01-13
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 147046618X

Leonhard Euler was one of the most prolific mathematicians that have ever lived. This book examines the huge scope of mathematical areas explored and developed by Euler, which includes number theory, combinatorics, geometry, complex variables and many more. The information known to Euler over 300 years ago is discussed, and many of his advances are reconstructed. Readers will be left in no doubt about the brilliance and pervasive influence of Euler's work.

Rachel, Monique...

Rachel, Monique...
Author: Sophie Calle
Publisher: Xavier Barral
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2017
Genre: Artists' books
ISBN: 9782365111171

"This volume, presenting Calle's installation of Rachel Monique at the Palais de Tokyo, was designed in close collaboration with the artist." -- from www.artbook.com/9782365111171.html (viewed 20 October 2017).

Second Helpings

Second Helpings
Author: Megan McCafferty
Publisher: Wednesday Books
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2021-07-06
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1250781825

Second Helpings continues Megan McCafferty's New York Times bestselling series - now with a new foreword by New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Serle Jessica Darling is in her senior year of high school and things can’t seem to get worse: her best friend, Hope, still lives in another state, and the mysterious and oh-so-compelling Marcus Flutie continues to be a distraction she doesn’t need. Not to mention her parents won’t get off her back about choosing a college, and her older sister’s pregnancy is causing quite a bit of drama in the Darling household. The second book in Megan McCafferty’s critically acclaimed Jessica Darling series is fun, irreverent, and shows that being a teenager is never easy (or boring). Now with a foreword from New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Serle and a new author's note from Megan McCafferty!