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1 April 1776 – 27 June 1831
Born in Paris, France

Mathematician

Came from the liberal educated middle class

Financially dependent on her family until the end of her life

Was educated by reading in her fathers library and then later using the pseudonym of M. Le Blanc, managed to obtain lecture notes for courses from the newly organized École Polytechnique in Paris

École Polytechnique - engineering school in france

Sophie’s occupations where a Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher

First woman known who managed to make great strides in mathematics, especially in number theory

The first mathematician to ever formulate a plan to prove Fermat's Last Theorem in its entirety

https://www.gcsu.edu/sites/files/page-assets/node-808/attachments/kagele.pdf

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sophie-Germain

https://www.newscientist.com/people/sophie-germain/

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14 December 1631- 23 February 1679
BACKGROUND
-Anne Conway came from a family of rich background with high social standing.
-She was educated and then moved on to become a german philosopher and renowned mathematician.
- She was taking advantage of a wealthy husband whom she got married to at the age of 20.
-She suffered from migraines and died at the age of 47.

ACHIEVEMENTS
-Anne is known to be the author of a single treatise of philosophy.
-She wrote the single treatise at the end of her life and published anonymously in Amsterdam. 1690https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/conway/#:~:text=Anne%20Conway%20is%20known%20to,Principia%20philosophiae%20antiquissimae%20et%20recentissimae.
-She was a great influence on the works of the renowned Gottfried Leibniz.
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- January 20, 1758 to February 10, 1836
- Married at 13 when she married the wealthy French lawyer
- She had a noble status
- She was presiding over one of Paris’s most influential salons,  hosting visitors such as Ben Franklin & James Watt.
- She was a English-speaking expert available to negotiate.
- She died at the age of 78 (no known cause for of her death)
- She was sent at a convent at the age of 3
- Her dad arranged a marriage to his 28 year old Colleague & her at the age of 12.
-  She was a French chemist, a translator, & a assistant to her husband.
- She had no children in her life
Sources: - https://www.newscientist.com/article/2090136-the-lost-women-of-enlightenment-science/
- Wikipedia

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December 15th 1623-1673
Colchester UK

Social status: The daughter of wealthy parents, staunch royalist and aristocrat, she had oil paintings which means she was wealthy.

Education: she was taught to read and write, studied music, needlework and dancing. she recited no formal training but she had access to libraries an tutors.

Occupation: First feminist scientist, prolific female author and natural philosopher.

Achievements: Some of her books were “The blazing World” “poems and fancies” and more.  she was the competing vitalistic and mechanistic natural philosopher and atomism.

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-Born in Judburgh, United Kingdom (December 26, 1780-November 29, 1872)

Status:
-Born to an upper middle class family and married William Somerville, a scientist.

Education:
-Taught to read by her mother and attended boarding school for one year. When she came home, she studied at home and learned from the family’s library.
-Her uncle taught her Latin.

Occupation:
-She was a Scottish scientist, author, and mathematician.
-Her husband who was also experienced in the field of studies supported her in her works and discoveries
-Supported women’s education and suffrage

Achievements:
-Became the most scientific author
-Was one of the first female members of the Royal Astronomical Society.
-Overcame the social pressures preventing women from learning in science.
-Contributed in the discovery of the planet “Neptune”

Source: bibalex.com, britannica.com, scientificwomen.net,

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- born April 1st 1776
- died June 27th 1831
- mathematician who was the first women to win a prize from France
- she was born in, Rue saint - Denis, Paris France
- banned from entering Parises revolutionary ecole poly ( its mission was to provide its students with. Well rounded scientific education with a strong emphasis in mathematics) technique
- Germain assumed the identity of a male student who had left, taking over his lecture notes and submitting work under his name
- forced to work at home, from books
- she became fascinated by the number theory
- she was a mathematician, physicist and philosopher
- she was a middle class female who went against the wishes of her family and the social prejudices of the time to become highly recognized mathematician
-she was best known for one particular Theorem that Ahmed t proven the first case of fermats last theorem
- https://www.newscientist.com/people/sophie-germain/
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sophie-Germain
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-She was born in Frankfort, Germany and set sail for South America at 50. She was raised in a family of famous publishers and artists that had connections all over Europe.

-She set up an all-female business producing luxurious flower-painted fabrics. Her father taught her all the skills she needed to know to make these full-color engravings.

-Maria enjoyed a very privileged childhood along with traditional girl’s education of reading,writing and household tasks. She learned to paint and print books along with pictures alongside her brothers.

-Maria became a well known artist and writer and published the book Blumenbuch “New book of flowers” in 1678. Her second book “Caterpillars, Their Wondrous Transformation and Peculier Nourishment from Flowers” released in 1683 after her daughter was born, the book was about metamorphosis and moths along with butterflies.

-The year of Maria’s death, her painting were purchased for Peter 1, the tsar of Russia. Maria’s illustrations for the tsar became the first women to be employed by the Russian Academy of Sciences.

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- She lived March 16th 1750-January 9th 1848 in Hanover, Germany
- The first woman to discover a comet
- King George III even rewarded her with a scientific salary
- Caroline learned to read and write, didn’t go to school
- Her brother eventually taught her math
- She was an astronomer
-  She was born into a working class family, her dad was a musician https://www.schoolsobservatory.org/learn/history/biographies/herschel#:~:text=She%20learned%20to%20read%20and,he%20gave%20to%20her%20brothers.&text=When%20Caroline%20was%2022%2C%20she,with%20her%20older%20brother%2C%20William.    https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/caroline-herschel-first-paid-female-astronomer#:~:text=Caroline%20Lucretia%20Herschel%20was%20born,than%20help%20run%20the%20household.

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