Number Theory Through the Eyes of Sophie Germain by David Pen... - 9781470472207

Number Theory Through the Eyes of Sophie GermainAn Inquiry Course\nAuthor(s): David Pengelley\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: American Mathematical Society, United States\nImprint: American Mathematical Society\nISBN-13: 9781470472207, 978-1470472207\nSynopsis\nNumber Theory Through the Eyes of Sophie Germain: An Inquiry Course is an innovative textbook for an introductory number theory course.\n\nSophie Germain [tel] was largely self-taught in mathematics and, two centuries ago, in solitude, devised and implemented a plan to prove Fermat's Last Theorem. We have only recently completely understood this work from her unpublished letters and manuscripts. David Pengelley has been a driving force in unraveling this mystery and here he masterfully guides his readers along a path of discovery. Germain, because of her circumstances as the first woman to do important original mathematical research, was forced to learn most of what we now include in an undergraduate number theory course for he?