Sophie Germain prime
Meanings
noun
- A prime number p where 2p+1 is also prime (the latter is called a safe prime).
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Etymology
From Sophie Germain + prime (noun), named after the French mathematician Sophie Germain (1776–1831), who used them in her investigations of Fermat’s Last Theorem.
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