In the early 19th century, Sophie Germain (1776-1831) came up with some ideas to try to prove Fermat’s theorem under the hypothesis that \(n\) and \(2n+1\) were both primes. Today these numbers are known as […]
The great Leonhard Euler spent his scientific life between the academies of science in St. Petersburg and Berlin. He was in St. Petersburg from 1727 to 1741, and then from 1766 until his death in […]
The theory of computation emerged powerfully in the 1930s, when Alonzo Church (1903-1995) and Alan Turing (1912-1954) independently proved that the answer to Hilbert’s decision problem was negative. Posed by Hilbert in 1928, the problem […]
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