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Creating some links between control feedback and biology modeling communities based on similarities in modeling, observing and perceiving alive structures, and analyzing interconnections between biological structures and subsystems was the main objective of this volume.

In this context, biology systems need appropriate analysis tools due to their structure and hierarchy, complexity and environment interference, and we believe that these aspects may generate interesting research topics in control area. Indeed, several works, raising the potential impact of control developments to bring some beginning of answers in the context of biological systems, have been published in the recent years.

The idea of this book was conceived in the context mentioned above with the objective to help in claiming many of the problems for control researchers, starting discussions and opening interactive debates between the control and biology communities, and, finally, to alert graduate students to the many interesting ideas at the frontier between control feedback theory and biology.

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Sophie Germain overcame gender stigmas and a lack of formal education yet proved, after Euler, that for all prime exponents n less than 100 Fermat's Last Theorem holds. Hidden behind a man's name, her brilliance as mathematician was first discovered by three of the greatest scholars of the eighteenth century¿ Lagrange, Gauss, and Legendre. In Sophie's Diary, Germain comes to life through a fictionalized journal that intertwines mathematics with historical descriptions of the brutal events that took place in Paris between 1789 and 1793. This format provides a plausible perspective of how a young Sophie could have learned mathematics on her own-both fascinated by numbers and eager to master tough subjects without a teacher's guidance. Her passion for mathematics is integrated into her personal life as an escape from societal outrage. Sophie's Diary is suitable for a variety of readers¿both young and old, mathematicians and novices¿who will be inspired and enlightened on a field of study made easy as is told through the intellectual and personal struggles of an exceptional young woman. ... Read more

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I really enjoyed reading Sophie's Diary. It is a wonderful book and its description of struggle of young Sophie to teach herself basic mathematics is fascinating. I'm amazed by a broad spectrum of topics, ranging from history of mathematics to history of the French Revolution, covered by this book and by a perfect balance between fiction, historical facts and the fundamental concepts of mathematics introduced in the book. In addition to an engaging story of Sophie's personal struggle and a thoughtful account of life of ordinary people during the French Revolution, the book's greatest value is educational with its profound message of how a mixture of wonder, resourcefulness and hard work can get you to the top of the field of your interest. Indeed, this is a beautiful book, one of its kind, and it'd be a must read book for students and instructors interested in this subject, as well as for anyone trying to encourage young women into science and mathematics. This is a book to buy for yourself and then buy ten more copies to give as gifts to your friends.

Mathematics and Historical Fiction
This book is not for little girls! Actually, it is a book for adults with knowledge of mathematics or at least some interest in the subject.
Someone gave "Sophie's Diary" to my 13-year old niece, thinking that it was like other books for young adult readers, but after she read about 20 pages my niece gave up for there was "too much math".
"Sophie's Diary" should be advertised as containing a great deal of math analysis, history of mathematics, and historical facts from the French Revolution.

Knowing that, one can enjoy reading about the struggle of a teenager teaching herself mathematics amidst the chaos of the social conflicts that led to the French Revolution. The author put in perspective the topics of mathematics that the girl had to learn in order to become one of the greatest mathematicians of all time.

Very interesting take on Sophie Germain
Although the character in Sophie's Diary is fictitious, one can easily believe the diary was written by the real Sophie Germain, who grew up to become a great mathematician. Reading this book one gets a sense of the world in which Sophie Germain grew up. I liked the book, but sometimes it gets hard to read because of the mathematics. However, one can imagine that a girl who likes mathematics would write a journal that not only describes what is going on around her, but also the things she is learning, since she did not have anybody to share that with.
Good book to motivate and to be a source of inspiration for young women interested in mathematics, and for anyone who likes to read about the history of mathematics. ... Read more

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Chapters: Twin Prime, Mersenne Prime, Fermat Number, Sophie Germain Prime, List of Prime Numbers, Wieferich Prime, Wolstenholme's Theorem, Prime Quadruplet, Strong Prime, Safe Prime, Unique Prime, Full Reptend Prime, Pierpont Prime, Ramanujan Prime, Sexy Prime, Fibonacci Prime, Wagstaff Prime, Palindromic Prime, Chen Prime, Regular Prime, Truncatable Prime, Eisenstein Prime, Dihedral Prime, Wall-Sun-Sun Prime, Permutable Prime, Higgs Prime, Cousin Prime, Primorial Prime, Stern Prime, Prime Triplet, Super-Prime, Cuban Prime, Wilson Prime, Factorial Prime, Supersingular Prime, Balanced Prime, Minimal Prime, Strobogrammatic Prime, Newman-Shanks-Williams Prime, Pillai Prime, Pythagorean Prime, Emirp, Good Prime, Solinas Prime, Gaussian Prime, Left-Truncatable Prime, Right-Truncatable Prime, Highly Cototient Prime, Double Mersenne Prime, Woodall Prime, Proth Prime, Motzkin Prime, Lucky Prime, Lucas Prime, Happy Prime, Repunit Prime, Long Prime, Right Prime, Fortunate Prime, Genocchi Prime, Mills Prime, Cullen Prime, Irregular Prime. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 224. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: There are infinitely many prime numbers. Prime numbers may be generated with various formulas for primes. The first 500 are listed below, followed by lists of the first prime numbers of various types in alphabetical order. There are 20 consecutive primes in each of the 25 rows. (sequence A000040 in OEIS). The Goldbach conjecture verification project reports that it has computed all primes below 10. That means 24,739,954,287,740,860 primes, but they were not stored. There are known formulas to evaluate the prime-counting function (the number of primes below a given value) faster than computing the primes. This has been used to compute that there are 1,925,320,391,606,803,968,923 primes (ro...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=442370 ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! In number theory, a prime number p is a Sophie Germain prime if 2p + 1 is also prime. For example, 23 is a Sophie Germain prime because it is a prime and 2 × 23 + 1 = 47, also prime. These numbers are named after French mathematician Marie-Sophie Germain.A Sophie Germain prime p > 3 is of the form 6k−1 or, equivalently, p ≡ 5 (mod 6) - as is its matching safe prime 2p+1. We note that the other form for a prime p > 3 is 6k+1 or, equivalently, p ≡ 1 (mod 6), and that 3|(2p+1) - thus excluding such p from the Sophie Germain prime domain. This is trivially proven using modular arithmetic.It is conjectured that there are infinitely many Sophie Germain primes, but like the twin prime conjecture, this has not been proven. ... Read more