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?

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