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Pierre de Fermat (French: [pjɛʁ də fɛʁma]; between 31 October and 6 December 1607 [a] – 12 January 1665) was a French mathematician who is given credit for early developments that led to infinitesimal calculus, including his technique of adequality.
4 sty 2024 · Pierre de Fermat (French: [pjɛːʁ də fɛʁma]) (between 31 October and 6 December 1607 – 12 January 1665) was a French lawyer at the Parlement of Toulouse, France, and a mathematician who is given credit for early developments that led to infinitesimal calculus, including his technique of adequality.
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.
"I have discovered a truly marvelous proof, which this margin is too narrow to contain". With these tantalizing words the seventeenth-century French mathematician Pierre de Fermat threw down the gauntlet to future generations.
25 cze 2021 · The 17th-century mathematician Pierre de Fermat left behind one of the most puzzling problems in math history—Fermat's Last Theorem.
The French mathematician Pierre de Fermat(1601-1665) was possibly the most productive mathematician of his era, making many contributions, some of which were to calculus, number theory, and the law of refraction.
Biography: Pierre de Fermat made significant contributions to several areas of mathematics. He developed early methods in calculus, number theory, and probability. Fermat studied law at the University of Orléans, earning his bachelor's degree in 1626.