Fermat, Pierre De
French Lawyer and Mathematician1601–1665
Pierre de Fermat's disagreements with Descartes over principles of analytic geometry hurt Fermat's reputation as a m...
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Pierre De Fermat
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, h...
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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 numbe...
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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 in...
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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 ...
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