number theory. On June 27th, 1831, in a little house in Paris, France, is where Marie-Sophie Germain died from suffering from breast cancer. She died having no husband or children, and “was not known to have had any romantic relationship either.” Her “pen-pal,” Gauss wanted to award Sophie Germain with a “honorary doctorate… by Göttingen University, but she died before it [she] could be awarded.” Though she was not accepted into a man world because she was a woman and wanted to change the role that women…
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