Nothing Stopped Sophie: The Story of Unshakable Mathematician Sophie

Author: Cheryl Bardoe Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 40 The true story of eighteenth-century mathematician Sophie Germain, who solved the unsolvable to achieve her dream. When her parents took away her candles to keep their young daughter from studying math...nothing stopped Sophie. When a professor discovered that the homework sent to him under a male pen name came from a woman...nothing stopped Sophie. And when she tackled a math problem that male scholars said would be impossible to solve...still, nothing...Read more