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Sophie Germain

French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher

1776 - 1831

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Her biography is available in 59 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 58 in 2024). Sophie Germain is the 55th most popular mathematician (down from 51st in 2024), the 347th most popular biography from France (down from 334th in 2019) and the 13th most popular French Mathematician.

Sophie Germain is most famous for her work in number theory. She is the first woman to be awarded a prize from the French Academy of Sciences and the first woman to be elected to the French Academy of Sciences.

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Sophie Germain is one of only 93 women among the 1,004 Mathematicians in Pantheon.

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Sophie Germain's biography appears in 59 language editions of Wikipedia — more than 92% of all Mathematicians.

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Sophie Germain shares a April 1 birthday with Otto von Bismarck, Milan Kundera, and Wangari Maathai.

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Among Mathematicians

Among mathematicians, Sophie Germain ranks 55 out of 1,004. Before her are Emmy Noether, George Boole, Abraham de Moivre, Archytas, August Ferdinand Möbius, and Josef Stefan. After her are Friedrich Bessel, Charles Sanders Peirce, Philolaus, Karl Weierstrass, Sofia Kovalevskaya, and Marin Mersenne.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1776, Sophie Germain ranks 4. Before her are Amedeo Avogadro, E. T. A. Hoffmann, and Johann Friedrich Herbart. After her are John Constable, Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Caroline of Baden, Ioannis Kapodistrias, Archduke Joseph, Palatine of Hungary, Şehzade Abdullah, Johann Wilhelm Ritter, and Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh. Among people deceased in 1831, Sophie Germain ranks 5. Before her are Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Carl von Clausewitz, James Monroe, and Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot. After her are Napoléon Louis Bonaparte, Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Archduke Rudolf of Austria, Ioannis Kapodistrias, Emilia Plater, Achim von Arnim, and Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg.

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In France

Among people born in France, Sophie Germain ranks 347 out of 6,770. Before her are Pope Stephen IX (1020), Ludwig I of Bavaria (1786), Adolphe Thiers (1797), Désirée Clary (1777), Constantine II (316), and Chrétien de Troyes (1135). After her are Olivier Messiaen (1908), Éliphas Lévi (1810), Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor (1275), J. M. G. Le Clézio (1940), William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825), and Elisabeth of Valois (1545).

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Among Mathematicians In France

Among mathematicians born in France, Sophie Germain ranks 13. Before her are Évariste Galois (1811), François Viète (1540), Pope Sylvester II (938), Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789), Urbain Le Verrier (1811), and Abraham de Moivre (1667). After her are Marin Mersenne (1588), Émilie du Châtelet (1706), Girard Desargues (1591), Johann Heinrich Lambert (1728), Gaspard Monge (1746), and Siméon Denis Poisson (1781).

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