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Friday, March 22, 2019
Thursday, March 14, 2019
Women's History Month and Sophie Germain
Today in 2nd Grade library we read about French Mathematician Sophie Germain and her incredible perseverance with developing a mathematical formula to predict the shapes created by vibrations. She worked on this math problem for an amazing 6 years and was turned down by the Academy of Sciences twice before finally winning the prize.
Below is a video of a similar experiment to the one that Sophia saw in the early 1800s in Paris that inspired her work.
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