When a 13-year old Marie-Sophie Germain was stuck in the house because ... she looked at studying at the new École Polytechnique. Founded after the revolution as a military and engineering ...

Sophie Germain was born on April 1 ... latest ideas and her tutors refused to take her seriously. In 1794, the Ecole Polytechnique opened in Paris. It was founded as an academy of excellence ...

When a 13-year old Marie-Sophie Germain was stuck in the house because ... she looked at studying at the new École Polytechnique. Founded after the revolution as a military and engineering ...

The boundary-breaking career of mathematician Sophie Germain, born in 1776 ... A newly-opened university, the École Polytechnique, denied her admission; instead, friends provided her with ...

Lagrange taught at France’s École Polytechnique ... This was particularly beneficial to Sophie Germain, who longed to study ...

Sophie Germain ... she managed to obtain from the École Polytechnique the lecture notes of the great Lagrange. Germain submitted work to the Academy of Science under the name of LeBlanc, of ...

When Sophie Germain’s father found out she ... Banned from entering Paris’s Revolutionary Ecole Polytechnique, Germain assumed the identity of a male student who had left, taking over his ...