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Nothing Stopped Sophie: The Story of Unshakable Mathematician Sophie Germain by Cheryl Bardoe Edward O Wilson Varieties of LoveThe true story of eighteenth century mathematician Sophie Germain, who solved the unsolvable to achieve her dream. When her parents took away her candles to keep their young daughter from studying math nothing stopped Sophie. When a professor discovered that the homework sent to him under a male pen name came from a woman nothing stopped Sophie. And when she tackled a math problem that male scholars said would be impossible to solve still, nothing