Letters of Sophie Germain preserved in Florence
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Letters of Sophie Germain preserved in Florence
zbMATH Open document ID: 1076.01018
author: A. Del Centina
published in: Historia Mathematica
publication date: 2005-05-12T00:00:00Z
review text: The author publishes nine letters of Sophie Germain: six to Guglielmo Libri, followed by letters to Poinsot, Legendre and Lagrange. These letters are held at the Moreniana Library in Florence. The circumstances in which those letters were written are also decribed in the paper.
reviewed by: Boris M. Schein
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01A55
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01A70
zbMATH DE Number: 2167812
zbMATH Keywords: Letters
zbMATH Keywords: Libri
zbMATH Keywords: Poinsot
zbMATH Keywords: Legendre
zbMATH Keywords: Lagrange
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: j.hm.2003.11.001
OpenAlex ID: W2019405950
Wikidata QID: Q56061329
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DOI: 10.1016/J.HM.2003.11.001
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 2167812