Sophie Germain and Safe Primes

Sophie Germain (born 1776 in Paris) was a French mathematician and who used safe primes to investigate Fermat’s Last Theorem. Sophie gained her knowledge of mathematics by studying the works of Euler and communicated her ideas with other famous mathematics scholars including Legendre and Gauss. In fact, at the time, she faced great resistance in her studies, including from her parent who confiscated her candles and took away her…