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Sophie Germain was a mathematician, a physicist, and a philosopher. She left us a legacy that portrays a deeply sensitive woman who was curious about the world and studied diverse subjects such as astronomy, chemistry, history, and geography.
… le Créateur de l’univers n’a pas commencé; l’idée qu’il ne doit pas finir est presque symétrique de la première. [… the Creator of the universe did not begin; the idea that he must not end is almost symmetrical to the first.]
—SOPHIE GERMAIN
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Germain (1833).
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Stupuy (1896), p. 90.
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Ibid., p. 86.
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Comte (1835), p. 604.
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Stupuy (1896), pp. 375–377.
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Ravaisson (1889), pp. 71–72.
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Stupuy (1896), p. 90.
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Musielak (2012).
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Stupuy (1896), p. 109.
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Ibid., p. 378.
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Hegel’s Biography by Canfora/Froeb at www.hegel.net/en/hegelbio.htm.
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Stupuy (1896).
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Ibid., p. 222.
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Ibid., p. 203. L’Écriture sainte ne prévient point la postérité à l’égard des sciences, et Dieu n’a employé dans ce genre d’autre révélation que celle du génie.
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Musielak, D. (2020). Pensées de Germain . In: Sophie Germain. Springer Biographies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38375-6_10
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