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Monsieur Antoine-August Antoine Auguste Le Blanc. (Sophie Germain, 1776–1831) Sophie Germain hid behind the male pseudonym "M. Le Blanc" to study at the École Polytechnique and to be taken seriously in mail correspondence with other mathematicians, including Lagrange and Gauss. |
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Monsieur Antoine-August Le Blanc. (Sophie Germain, 1776–1831) In the eighteenth century in France, a woman was not normally accepted in universities. Sophie Germain hid behind the above male pseudonym "M. Le Blanc" to study at the École Polytechnique . Beginning this way, Sophie Germain corresponded with many mathematicians and "M. le Blanc" began to have an impact be taken seriously in turn on them. Two of these mathematicians stand out: Joseph-Louis Lagrange, who soon discovered that "le Blanc" was a woman and continued the mail correspondence anywaywith other mathematicians, including Lagrange and Carl Friedrich Gaussof Germany, who eventually also discovered that he'd been exchanging ideas with a woman for three years. |
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Monsieur Antoine-August Le Blanc. (Sophie Germain, 1776–1831) In the eighteenth century in France, a woman was not normally accepted in universities. Sophie Germain hid behind the above male pseudonym to study at the École Polytechnique. Beginning this way, Sophie Germain corresponded with many mathematicians and "M. le Blanc" began to have an impact in turn on them. Two of these mathematicians stand out: Joseph-Louis Lagrange, who soon discovered that "le Blanc" was a woman and continued the correspondence anyway, and Carl Friedrich Gauss of Germany, who eventually also discovered that he'd been exchanging ideas with a woman for three years. |
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