
Carl Friedrich Gauss
In Our Time
A Novel About Gaus, a French Mathematician
A young french mathematician, a called sophi's germain. She was fascinated by mathematics during the french revolution. When napoleon invaded brunswick she got in touch with a general and told him to send some one to make sure that gausse was safe. The person duly arrives at gause's house and says that a woman in paris has come to check that he's ok. And then it turns out that it's indeed sophy germain. He sends her the most beautiful letter, talking about her superior genius and amazing abilities at maths. That was more than 35 years before the first woman got a ph d In mathematics in europe.
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