Unpublished manuscripts of Sophie Germain and a revaluation of her work on Fermat's last theorem

DOI10.1007/s00407-007-0016-4zbMath1202.01060OpenAlexW2039084055WikidataQ56061330 ScholiaQ56061330MaRDI QIDQ942899

Andrea Del Centina

Publication date: 8 September 2008

Published in: Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-007-0016-4

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) History of mathematics in the 18th century (01A50) History of number theory (11-03) Higher degree equations; Fermat's equation (11D41) History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55)

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