Sophie Germain
 Mathematician, physicist, and
philosopher.
 Born April 1, 1776, in Rue Saint-Denis,
Paris, France
 Died: June 27, 1831
 Got educated at École Polytechnique
 French nationality
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Sophie Germain's greatest contribution
to mathematics was in number theory.
She discovered a special case of
Fermat's Last Theorem which we now call
the Germain Theorem.
 Worked in the elasticity theory,
differential geometry, number theory
and prime number fields
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Number theory or arithmetic is a branch
of pure mathematics devoted primarily
to the study of the natural numbers and
the integers. It is sometimes called "The
Queen of Mathematics" because of its
foundational place in the discipline.
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Germain wrote to Gauss outlining her
strategy for a general solution to
Fermat’s last theorem, which states that
there is no solution for the equation xn +
yn = zn if n is an integer greater than 2
and x, y, and z are nonzero integers. She
proved the special case in which x, y, z,
and n are all relatively prime (have no
common divisor except for 1) and n is a
prime smaller than 100