Émilie du Châtelet 👩‍🏫

Mathematician and Phisicist

Émilie du Châtelet was a great mathematician and physicist, she was born in Paris in 1706, and her name is Émilie le Tonolier de Breteuil, but this changed when she married the Marquis Florent-Claude de Châtelet, to the name by which we know her today. In itself, although she was very intelligent, the fact that she was an aristocrat and her father did not discriminate against her because she was a woman was very important for the development of her career, since he let her study as any man would, she studied mathematics, literature, science, among others.

She was the mother of three children, and at the age of 43, when she gave birth to her fourth, she died. Even so, before her death she made many discoveries and acquired many knowledge that we use today; among her works, she translated into French Newton's Mathematica Principle, to which she also added her own analysis of energy conservation, in addition, she deepened differential equations and demonstrated, thanks to her knowledge of physics and mathematics, that energy of an object in motion is proportional to its mass by the square of its speed.

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