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Pierre de Fermat (French: [pjɛʁ də fɛʁma]; between 31 October and 6 December 1607 – 12 January 1665) was a French mathematician who is given credit for early developments that led to infinitesimal calculus, including his technique of adequality.
- Fermat's Principle
Fig. 1: Fermat's principle in the case of refraction of...
- Fermat's Last Theorem
In number theory, Fermat's Last Theorem (sometimes called...
- Fermat's Principle
Pierre de Fermat (born August 17, 1601, Beaumont-de-Lomagne, France—died January 12, 1665, Castres) was a French mathematician who is often called the founder of the modern theory of numbers. Together with René Descartes, Fermat was one of the two leading mathematicians of the first half of the 17th century.
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Pierre de Fermat, né dans la première décennie du XVII e siècle [F 1], à Beaumont-de-Lomagne (département actuel de Tarn-et-Garonne), près de Montauban, et mort le 12 janvier 1665 à Castres (département actuel du Tarn) [F 2], [1], est un magistrat, polymathe et surtout mathématicien français, surnommé par E.T. Bell « le prince des ...
Aug 17, 2011 · Pierre de Fermat was a French lawyer and government official most remembered for his work in number theory; in particular for Fermat's Last Theorem. He is also important in the foundations of the calculus. View eight larger pictures.
Pierre de Fermat - Math, Numbers, Theorems: Fermat vainly sought to persuade Pascal to join him in research in number theory. Inspired by an edition in 1621 of the Arithmetic of Diophantus, the Greek mathematician of the 3rd century ad, Fermat had discovered new results in the so-called higher arithmetic, many of which concerned properties of ...
In mathematics, a Fermat number, named after Pierre de Fermat, the first known to have studied them, is a positive integer of the form: = +, where n is a non-negative integer. The first few Fermat numbers are: 3, 5, 17, 257, 65537, 4294967297, 18446744073709551617, ...
