Sophie Paris Research Paper

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On April 1, 1776, in a little house on Rue Saint-Denis, located in Paris, France, was born Marie-Sophie Germain. She was raised along with an younger and older sister, Angélique-Ambroise and Marie-Madeline, by her parents Marie-Madeline and Ambroise-Franҫois Germain. Marie-Sophie Germain started acknowledging herself by just Sophie Germain, by the excess amount of “Maries” in the family. Sophie Germain was assumed to be influenced by her father, who worked as a successful silk merchant or as others would believe he was a goldsmith. Her father was soon elected as a “representative of the bourgeoisie… which he saw change into the Constitutional Assembly.” And that may have been an experience for Sophie Germain, seeing her father and others talk …show more content…
After such a long time of her hiding her studies of mathematics her parents realized that she was very serious about studying the fundamentals of mathematics, her mother in fact “secretly supported her.” When Sophie was the age of 18, Paris opened the École Polytechnique, which was “a French public institution of higher education and research in Palaiseau, a suburb southwest of Paris.” There Sophie Germain was excluded from attending the institution because she was a woman, but the institution had a system that allowed people to ask for lecture notes that had students submit their notes for others. That is when Sophie Germain got the idea of using the name of Monsieur Antoine-August Le Blanc, which was the name of a former student. Sophie Germain was too scared to send her notes with her name, because she was a woman, but there was a time that one of the faculty members asked to speak with Monsieur LeBlanc. At the meeting, is where he found out Sophie Germain’s real identity, but with that encounter he was not affected by her being a woman, so he became her …show more content…
During this time, she had “outlined a philosophical essay which was published posthumously (after her death) as Considérations générales sur l'état des sciences et des lettres,” and that paper was loved and admired by her good friend August Comte. With the burden of breast cancer, Germain ignored that and the violence of the fighting during the 1830 revolution to continue to finish essays on elastic surfaces and also 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 are perceived to have, Sophie Germain died by having her death certificate saying she was a “rentière- annuitant,” meaning a property holder instead of a “mathématicienne” (mathematician), showing disrespect to a person that had such a contribution to the theory of numbers in mathematics, acoustics and elasticity in physics as we know today. Sophie Germain was relevant to her
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