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4:Sophie Germain. In the last of the series, Adam Hart-Davis explores the life of an 18th-century French woman who, inspired by Archimedes to study mathematics, pretended to be a man in order to pursue her greatest passion - finding a proof for Fermat's last theorem.

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Presenter:
Adam Hart-Davis
Producer:
John Byrne
Source: Radio Times

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