When a 13-year old Marie-Sophie Germain was stuck in the house because of the chaotic revolution on the streets of Paris in 1789, she found a refuge for her active mind: her father’s mathematics ...

Sophie Germain was the first to propose a realistic plan to prove Fermat's Last Theorem. By Julie Rehmeyer. February 21, ... Adrien-Marie Legendre, and Joseph-Louis Lagrange, ...