Timeline for Did Sophie Germain find a flaw in Euler's equations for elastic vibrations?
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| Apr 23, 2022 at 2:53 | history | edited | uhoh |
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| Feb 23, 2021 at 2:02 | history | edited | Conifold | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 23, 2021 at 2:01 | answer | added | Conifold | timeline score: 11 | |
| Feb 22, 2021 at 19:59 | comment | added | njuffa | @Conifold Please consider turning your comments into an answer. | |
| Feb 22, 2021 at 10:47 | comment | added | Brenda Kenworthy | Awesome! Thank you so much everyone! | |
| Feb 22, 2021 at 10:17 | comment | added | Conifold | See Langton's entry in The Reception of the Work of Leonhard Euler, p.2256 on the first, and Gray's in Complexities: Women in Mathematics on the second. A good source on the whole drama surrounding Germaine's works for prix extraordinaire is Hill's thesis. | |
| Feb 22, 2021 at 10:09 | comment | added | Conifold | There were two episodes with Germaine and Euler's mistake in elasticity, but neither one of them is of Germaine discovering Euler's mistake. The first one is from 1811 when she was starting to work on prix extraordinaire and corresponded with Legendre on Euler's paper on elastic rods. Euler wrote an incorrect solution for certain eigenmodes, but it was Legendre who spotted that in one of his letters to her. The second episode is of Germaine using an incorrect equation from Euler to derive boundary conditions in the 1816 memoir that won the prize, which led to disagreement with experiments. | |
| Feb 22, 2021 at 9:07 | comment | added | sand1 | The French Wikipedia gives a ref in French, the paper is online and perhaps the eq. is on p.5 Amy Dahan-Dalmédico, « Mécanique et théorie des surfaces : les travaux de Sophie Germain », Historia Mathematica, no 14, 1987, p. 347-365 faridak.free.fr/Sophie%20Germain/… | |
| Feb 22, 2021 at 8:26 | history | edited | Big Brother |
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| Feb 22, 2021 at 8:08 | history | asked | Brenda Kenworthy | CC BY-SA 4.0 |