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Did Sophie Germain find a flaw in Euler's equations for elastic vibrations?
There were two episodes with Germain and Euler's mistake in elasticity, but neither one of them is of Germain discovering Euler's mistake. The first one is from 1811 when she was starting to work on ...
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