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Sophie Germain Primes and Methods of Proof If you take the prime number 379009 and look at it upside down you get the word Google!! But other prime numbers are far more interesting than this novelty. It's important to know, specifically, what exactly a prime number is. A prime number is an integer greater than one which has only two positive divisors; one and itself. If an integer is a whole number, then an example of a prime is the number two, which can only be divided by one or itself and yield a positive whole number. If you divide two by any other positive whole integer, it will result in a fraction such as 2/3 or 2/5 which does not give whole positive integers. Note therefore that all composite numbers or numbers that are positive integers that are not prime, can be factored by prime numbers. The number two is the only even prime, which means the rest of the prime numbers are odd since zero in not greater than one and is neither positive or negative. That is the specific definition of a prime number, but there is more to the primes than what can be deduced at first glance. A Sophie Germain prime or a Germain is a prime that when multiplied by two and added to one remains a prime; if $ is a prime number and 2$ + 1 is equal to a prime number as well. This special “set” of prime numbers are named after the French mathematician Sophie Germain.
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Sophie Germain contributed to Fermat’s last theorem which states that there are no three positive

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