Sophie Germain's theorem
Teorema de Sophie Germain
- Date
- 1823 · confidence low
- Place
- Paris, France
- Credited to
- Sophie Germain
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What was discovered
Result by Sophie Germain on Fermat's Last Theorem, establishing divisibility conditions for solutions of xᵖ+yᵖ=zᵖ when p is a Sophie Germain prime, which for decades restricted the so-called first case of the theorem.
What it led to
- Key advance toward the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem
- Definition of Sophie Germain primes
- Posthumous recognition of her work in number theory