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This mathematician, who was a descendant of silk merchants, used a nom-de-plume of Mr. White, just to gain lecture notes from a certain school which was un-accessable to them. Who is it, and what specific signifigance does their work bear upon Fermat's Last Theorem?
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#60305. Asked by peasypod. (Nov 01 05 6:57 AM)
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lanfranco
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This was Sophie Germain, a talented French woman mathematician, who called herself LeBlanc in order to obtain lecture notes from the Ecole Poyltechnique, which women could not attend. She devised a theorem which went a long way towards proving Fermat's Last Theorem:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Germain
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peasypod
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She's the one Frankiebabe, and isn't funny how our pal Napoleon pops up out of no-where so very often?
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lanfranco
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It's frightening. I feel as though I'm being haunted by the guy ...
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