Talk:Sophie Germain prime

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With good intentions, a couple of anonymous users added some redundant passages to the article, repeating some definitions with extremely similar wording. The paragraphs they added on Sophie Germain herself are relevant but make more sense in the article on Sophie Germain. These edits resulted in an article that looked very incoherent. I'm not inclined to question their paragraph on the largest known Sophie Germain prime, but in the interest of detangling the rest of what they wrote I have also taken it out. PrimeFan 15:39, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

I see it less kindly. Their additions were cut and pasted from Mathworld and other websites, and reworded just barely enough to avoid a red flag from plagiarism detection software. Anton Mravcek 21:10, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] The proof of Proof was about Sophie Germain primes?

The current version of the article says that:

Sophie Germain primes were the subject of the eponymous proof in the stage play Proof and the subsequent film Proof.

That comes as a surprise to me. I watched the film once, I recall Gwyneth Paltrow's character quoting a large Sophie Germain prime during the party at her house, but I don't recall anything that explicitly said that's what the proof was about. Later on Hal describes it as proving something that people've been trying to prove for centuries, but he doesn't any more detail than this. In general, the movie is not so much about any particular mathematical concept as it is about the psychology of an old math genius and his daughter. PrimeFan 21:45, 5 April 2006 (UTC)