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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?

    Question #60305. Asked by peasypod.

    lanfranco

    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

    Nov 01 05, 8:08 AM
    peasypod

    She's the one Frankiebabe, and isn't funny how our pal Napoleon pops up out of no-where so very often?

    Nov 01 05, 3:36 PM
    lanfranco

    It's frightening. I feel as though I'm being haunted by the guy ...

    Nov 01 05, 4:09 PM

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