Pierre de Fermat, a lawyer and jurist by profession, made major contributions to every field of mathematics that existed in the seventeenth century. He developed the principles of analytic geometry independently from his contemporary René...

The French mathematician Pierre de Fermat (1601-1665) played an important part in the foundation and development of analytic geometry, the calculus of probabilities, and especially the theory of numbers. Pierre de Fermat was born on Aug. 17, 1601, at...

Fermat was one of the greatest amateur mathematicians. He was born on August 20, 1601 in Beaumont-de-Lomagne, France, to a prosperous merchant family. Pierre's financially secure family situation and his mother's high parliamentary social status made...

1601-1665 French Mathematician One of the most intriguing figures in the history of mathematics, Pierre de Fermat was the classic talented amateur. A lawyer and government official, he spent much of his time too busy with other affairs to devote any...

French Lawyer and Mathematician1601–1665...

Pierre de Fermat IPA: [pjɛːʁ dəfɛʁ'ma] (August 17 1601 – January 12 1665) was a French lawyer at the Parlement of Toulouse, France, and a mathematician who is given credit for early developments that led to modern calculus. In particular, he...

Closing in on Fermat's last theorem One of the most famous unsolved problems in mathematicsstarted out as a note scrawled in the margin of a book. Now known as Fermat's last theorem, the problem was first proposed by 17th-century French mathematician Pierre...

August 17th, 1601 FERMAT WROTE HIS LAST Theorem, the Holy Grail of higher mathematics, in the margin of his copy of a text by a Greek mathematician of the third century AD, Diophantus, next to a discussion about splitting a squared number...