Sophie Germain Quotes

In Describing The Honourable Mission I Charged Him With, M. Pernety Informed Me That He Made My Name Known To You. This Leads Me To Confess That I Am Not As Completely Unknown To You As You Might Believe, But That Fearing The Ridicule Attached To A Female Scientist, I Have Previously Taken The Name Of M. LeBlanc In Communicating To You Those Notes That, No Doubt, Do Not Deserve The Indulgence With Which You Have Responded.

{Explaining Her Use Of A Male Pseudonym In A Letter To Carl Friedrich Gauss, 1807}

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