At that time she was able to obtain the lecture notes from classes at the recently established École Polytechnique, she was particularly interested in Lagrange’s lectures on analysis. Scholars at the school were expected to organize end of term reports. She actually ended up pretending to be a student there and using the false name "Le Balanc", Sophie Germain wrote a paper on analysis and sent it to Lagrange. He was astounded at its originally, praised it publicly, sought out its author, and thus discovered that M. Le Blanc was actually in fact Sophie Germain. From then on, he became her support and a personal mathematical
At that time she was able to obtain the lecture notes from classes at the recently established École Polytechnique, she was particularly interested in Lagrange’s lectures on analysis. Scholars at the school were expected to organize end of term reports. She actually ended up pretending to be a student there and using the false name "Le Balanc", Sophie Germain wrote a paper on analysis and sent it to Lagrange. He was astounded at its originally, praised it publicly, sought out its author, and thus discovered that M. Le Blanc was actually in fact Sophie Germain. From then on, he became her support and a personal mathematical