M. LeBlanc and Safe Primes
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2 min readMay 22, 2023
Sophie Germain (born 1776 in Paris) was a French mathematician and who used safe primes to investigate Fermat’s Last Theorem. She gained her knowledge of mathematics by studying the works of Euler and communicated her ideas with other famous mathematics scholars including Legendre, Fourier and Gauss.
In fact, at the time, she faced great resistance in her studies, including from her parent who tried to stall her…