Happy birthday to French mathematician, physicist and philosopher Marie-Sophie Germain (1776 – 1831), known as Sophie. She taught herself mathematics using books in her father’s library and by corresponding with leading mathematicians of her day, including Lagrange, Legendre and Gauss, initially using the pseudonym Monsieur LeBlanc. 
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@SimonCHulse @phil_stevens I just came upon this excellent example of order arising spontaneously from disorder... just resonance (magical though it can be, because it's so hard to understand), no lawmaker required: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=CR_XL192wXw or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR_XL192wXw #ChladniFigures Incidentally, this is remarkably similar to my undergraduate physic thesis research.
Happy birthday to French mathematician, physicist and philosopher Marie-Sophie Germain (1776 – 1831), known as Sophie. She taught herself mathematics using books in her father's library and by corresponding with leading mathematicians of her day, including Lagrange, Legendre and Gauss, …
