``Voici ce que j'ai trouvé: Sophie Germain's grand plan to prove Fermat's last theorem

DOI10.1016/j.hm.2009.12.002zbMath1205.01010arXiv0801.1809MaRDI QIDQ619765

Reinhard C. Laubenbacher, David J. Pengelley

Publication date: 18 January 2011

Published in: Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0801.1809

zbMATH Keywords

Fermat's last theorem; number theory; Legendre; Gauss; Libri

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

01A50: History of mathematics in the 18th century

11-03: History of number theory

11D41: Higher degree equations; Fermat's equation

01A55: History of mathematics in the 19th century

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The correspondence between Sophie Germain and Carl Friedrich Gauss, The Historical Context of the Gender Gap in Mathematics

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