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"Sophie Germain was born on 1 April 1776, in Paris, France" stated in https://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/germain.htm . Sophie Germain was a girl French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher. When Sophie Germain was 13 years of age all she had for enjoyment was her father's library; In her father's library she gained education from reading books. Sophie's parents being how they are following the rules they never wanted her to study. "Sophie thought that if the geometry method, at the time was referred to all of pure mathematics, that could hold such fascination for Archimedes, it was a subject worthy of study" stated in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Germain . She looked over every book on mathematics that was in her father's …show more content…

Sophie could not study her parents would do anything just to stop her like turning down warm clothes and a fire for her bedroom just to keep her from studying, but Sophie was not going to let them stop her from getting her education so you know what she did? As soon as her parents left her alone she would take out candles, wrap herself into the covers and start doing mathematics. No one had to tell her to go read a book, go learn something, go do some homework or put her by the table just to do some problems she did it on her own in my generation you were cursed if you like math or anything that had to do with school period we would cry just to hear the word homework or math but Sophie loved to do math and she did everything she could she even wrote an essay about the fact that being a young lady she could not get an education or career. I think that was good she never stopped trying she never gave up on something that she wanted in life she keep fighting she was an independent person. Before her death 27 June 1831 Gauss had recommended that she be awarded an honorary degree, but that never occurred. At the centenary of her life, a street and a girl's school were named after her. The Academy of Sciences established the Sophie Germain Prize in her

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