Category:Named Theorems/Germain

This category contains results named for Marie-Sophie Germain.

French mathematician who contributed to differential geometry and number theory, and provided some insights into aspects of Fermat's Last Theorem.

She was completely self-taught (as women typically left education at a young age and were discouraged from pursuing academic interests) and contributed her early work under the pseudonym Monsieur LeBlanc.

Had Gauss and Lagrange as mentors, but apart from that, suffered throughout her career from prejudice against her gender.

Later in her career she contributed towards the mathematical theory of elasticity.