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Contents 1 Request for photos of Sophie Germains' home 2 Missing conditions 3 theme

[edit] Request for photos of Sophie Germains' home

Hello ineed help with finding some pictures of Sophie Germains' home—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.183.232.205 (talk • contribs) 00:39, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Missing conditions

"if x, y, and z are integers, and x5 + y5 = z5 then either x, y, or z has to be divisible by five. " I think some conditions are omitted here. The nontrivial case has no solutions (see Fermat), so it appears to me quite meaningless to say that these non-existing solutions have to be divisible by 5. On the other hand, in the trivial case x=0 and y=z, none of them has to be divisable by 5.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.11.216.65 (talk • contribs) 06:43, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

in case you are not aware, the result known as 'fermat's last theorem' was not proved by fermat but by Andrew Wiles in 1995. therefore it was entirely meaningful for germain to prove that any possible solutions to x^5 + y^5 = z^5 must be divisible by 5 at the start of the nineteenth century. see Fermat's Last Theorem. hope this helps. Via strass 08:47, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Sophie Germain was born into a wealthy family and self taught herself from her dads books in his libary.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 199.164.68.202 (talk • contribs) 19:45, 17 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] theme

How did she do that math? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 155.106.252.2 (talk) 15:19, 1 November 2007 (UTC)