UT Arlington professor pens mathematical novel inspired by real-life female mathematician

A University of Texas at Arlington professor has taken on the mystery of how a woman growing up in late-18thcentury France came out of nowhere to make a name for herself with the world’s most renowned mathematicians. The Mathematical Association of America recently re-published “Sophie’s Diary: A Mathematical Novel.” In the 279-page novel, Dora Musielak, a UT Arlington adjunct professor of physics and aerospace engineering, uses fiction to take up where records about mathematician Sophie Germain leave off. In 1816, Germain made history by becoming the first woman to win an