GAG496: Sophie Germain - Stories from the History

In this episode, we jump to France in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. As the revolution sweeps through the country, a girl grows up who – despite all social resistance to women in the sciences – will become one of the most important mathematicians of her time. We talk about Sophie Germain, who made a name for herself not only in the theory of numbers but also in mathematical physics – and yet, in her lifetime, never received the recognit…