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sophie germain

  • 27-03-2009 7:50pm
    #1
    regob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,418 ✭✭✭


    just wondering what do yas think of the work of sophie gemain


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  • #2
    LeixlipRed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,081 ✭✭✭LeixlipRed


    Eh, she was a famous Number Theorist. That's all I know. Done some work on Fermat's Last Theorem, wrote letters to Gauss, that sort of jazz. Why?


  • #3
    Thomas_S_Hunterson
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    LeixlipRed wrote: »
    Eh, she was a famous Number Theorist. That's all I know. Done some work on Fermat's Last Theorem, wrote letters to Gauss, that sort of jazz. Why?
    </david brent>:pac::p


  • #4
    regob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,418 ✭✭✭regob


    i just read bout germaine primes and dont get it, i no wat it says but just dont get the point


  • #5
    dafunk
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    regob wrote: »
    i just read bout germaine primes and dont get it, i no wat it says but just dont get the point

    Do you mean what is the point of Germain primes?


  • #6
    LeixlipRed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,081 ✭✭✭LeixlipRed


    They've no use in cryptography from the understanding I have anyway. I don't think they've any practical use except in the generation of "pseudo-random" numbers (hence why they're no use in cryptography). Those numbers have some applications themselves in monte-carlo simulation. I don't really know anything other than that tbh.


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  • #7
    regob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,418 ✭✭✭regob


    dafunk wrote: »
    Do you mean what is the point of Germain primes?

    yeah


  • #8
    LeixlipRed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,081 ✭✭✭LeixlipRed


    What's the point of anything so?


  • #9
    regob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,418 ✭✭✭regob


    LeixlipRed wrote: »
    What's the point of anything so?

    correct me if im wrong, this is coming from a trainee economist by the way, a germain prime is any number that is a prime wen ya double a prime and ad 1 to get it?

    wat use is this?

    nash equlibrium has a reasoning?

    e=mc2 has a reasoning?

    wats the reason for this?


  • #10
    Thomas_S_Hunterson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,151 ✭✭✭Thomas_S_Hunterson


    regob wrote: »
    correct me if im wrong, this is coming from a trainee economist by the way, a germain prime is any number that is a prime wen ya double a prime and ad 1 to get it?

    wat use is this?

    nash equlibrium has a reasoning?

    e=mc2 has a reasoning?

    wats the reason for this?
    Just wait til you hear about Mersenne primes and the amount of money spent on finding them.:p


  • #11
    regob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,418 ✭✭✭regob


    Sean_K wrote: »
    Just wait til you hear about Mersenne primes and the amount of money spent on finding them.:p

    do tell


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  • #12
    LeixlipRed
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,081 ✭✭✭LeixlipRed


    Sometimes people just like to do thinks for the hell of it. An intellectual exercise. To pass time. Who cares? Some people even consider these things (even if they're of no practical use) to have aesthetic qualities hence why they study them. Not everything has to have a reasoning behind it as well.


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