1. Pierre De Fermat Pierre de fermat pierre de Fermat ble født 17. august 1601 og døde 12. Denne franske matematikeren gjorde viktige oppdagelser innen analytisk geometri og tallteori, og arbeidet også med sannsynlighetsregning og optikk. http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hangar/3736/fermat.htm

Pierre de Fermat Pierre de Fermat ble født 17. august 1601 og døde 12. januar 1665. Denne franske matematikeren gjorde viktige oppdagelser innen analytisk geometri og tallteori, og arbeidet også med sannsynlighetsregning og optikk. For Fermat, som var jurist i Toulouse og embedsmann, var matematikk bare en hobby. I 1636 presenterte Fermat et system innenfor analytisk geometri liknende til det som Rene Descartes skulle foreslå ett år senere. Fermat's arbeid, som var basert på et forsøk på å gjenskape arbeidet til den greske matematikeren Apollonios fra Perga, bruke algebraen til Francois Vitete. Et liknende forsøk på å gjenskape et gammelt arbeid, førte til metoder som liknet på differentialregningen og integrasjon, for å finne topp- ogg bunnpunkter på kurver og arealet omgitt av kurver. Fermat's største arbeid var innefor tallteorien, og han var spesielt interesert i egenskapene til primtall. Fermat samarbeidet med Blaise Pascal om sannsynlighetsregningen. Fermat publiserte nesten ingenting i løpet av livet sitt, vanligvis kunngjorde han sine oppdagelser i brev til venner eller så bare noterte han resultatet i margene på bøkene sine. Hans arbeid ble nesten helt glemt fram til midten av 1800-tallet. Fermattall Et tall av formen F n n + 1 der n er et naturlig tall. Hvis F

2. Philosophers : Pierre De Fermat Pierre de Fermat. French Mathematician. 817-1601 to 12-12-1665. Pierre Fermat'sfather was a wealthy leather merchant and second consul of Beaumont- de- Lomagne. http://www.trincoll.edu/depts/phil/philo/phils/fermat.html

Pierre de Fermat French Mathematician 8-17-1601 to 12-12-1665 Pierre Fermat's father was a wealthy leather merchant and second consul of Beaumont- de- Lomagne. He was probably educated in his early years at the local Franciscan monastery. He attended the University of Toulouse before moving to Bordeau in the second half of the 1620s. In Bordeau he began his first serious mathematical researches and in 1629 he had completed his restoration of Apollonius's "Plane Loci." In Bordeau he was in contact with Beaugrand and produced important work on maxima and minima. From Bordeau Fermat went to Orléans where he studied law at the University. He received a degree in civil law and he purchased the offices of councillor at the parliament in Toulouse. Fermat's meteoric rise through the government is evidenced by his multiple appointments between 1631 and 1653. News of his death due to the plague of the 1650s was exaggerated: I informed you earlier of the death of Fermat. He is alive, and we no longer fear for his health, even though we had counted him among the dead a short time ago. The following report, made to Colbert the leading figure in France at the time, has a ring of truth:-

3. Fermat Pierre De From FOLDOC Fermat Pierre de. mathematics, epistemology, philosophy of science,Descartes, Pascal, theory of probability, last theorem French http://www.swif.uniba.it/lei/foldop/foldoc.cgi?Fermat Pierre de

4. Pierre De Fermat PIERRE DE FERMAT. Yogita Chellani. The following account of Fermat's backgroundis taken from Mahoney's book, The Mathematical Career of Pierre de Fermat. http://www.math.rutgers.edu/courses/436/436-s99/Papers1999/chellani.html

PIERRE DE FERMAT Yogita Chellani Term Paper, History of Mathematics, Rutgers 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. We will survey those contributions here, paying particular attention to his work in number theory. While relatively little is known of Fermat's early education, it is known that he was of Basque origin and received his primary and secondary education at the monastery of Grandsl ve, run by the Cordeliers (Franciscans), in Beaumont-de-Lomagne. For his advanced studies he first attended the University of Toulouse before moving to Bordeaux in the second half of the 1620's. In Bordeaux (1629) Fermat began his first serious mathematical researches, where he gave a copy of his restoration of Appollonius's Plane Loci to one of the mathematicians there. In Bordeaux he contacted Beaugrand and during this time he produced work on maxima and minima. He gave his work to Etienne de'Espagnet, who shared mathematical interests with Fermat. "Fermat's offices made him a member of that social class also and entitled him to add the "de" to his name, which he did from 1631 on." (Mahoney, p.16)

5. Pierre De Fermat Pierre de Fermat. The Mysteries of the Powers of Integers. Pierre de Fermat wasborn at the 17th of August in 1601 in Beaumont de Lomagne, France. http://www.surveyor.in-berlin.de/himmel/astro/Fermat-e.html

The ancient mechanism of the stargate had rendered im good services, but he wouldn't need them anymore. The flames of the inferno did no harm to the child. Still the quarder shaped appearance was floating in front of him; hidden inside it had undiscovered mysteries of space and time. But some of them the child already understood and thought to master them. How obviously - how necessary! - was the mathematical relation of the sides of the monolith - the square sequence of 1 : 4 : 9! And how naiv it was to assume that this series would end up only within the three dimensions! (Arthur C. Clarke, "2001 - Odyssee im Weltraum", 1969, Heyne 1978, retranslated) Pierre de Fermat The Mysteries of the Powers of Integers Pierre de Fermat was born at the 17th of August in 1601 in Beaumont de Lomagne, France. This birthday is not completely sure, but it is based on the fact that the christening happend at August 20. - After school he studied jurisprudence, and with an age of 30(33?) he became councillor at the court of Toulouse. According to mathematics, Fermat was amateur and probably self-tought. His sources were Greek texts about mathematics, most of all the book "Arithmetica" of Diophantos of Alexandria, covering problems of mathematics of the ancient times. Despite of his amateur state Fermat - besides of Descartes (1596-1650) - has the reputation as one of the greatest mathematician of his Century, and with Descartes he is one of the developer of the geometry of axes, and with this a founder of analytical geometry. He was one of the pioneers of infinitesimal calculation, because he was working with own methods on the integration of powers with integer and fractial exponents. With this he solved tangent problems covering the integration and differentiation of curves, the finding of maxima and zero points. He had correspondence with some famous contemporaries, besides other with Blaise Pascal and

6. Fermat Pierre De Fermat Pierre de ferma pier de, urodzil sie w 1601, zmarl w 1665, matematykfrancuski, z zawodu prawnik; dokonal wielu waznych odkryc w dziedzinie http://strony.wp.pl/wp/askgruchala/matematyka/matematycy/fermat.htm

Fermat uwag±: „margines jest za ma³y dla zapisania dowodu". Dowód, którego Fermat nie poda³ z braku miejsca, nie zosta³ dotychczas znaleziony. Uda³o siê natomiast udowodniæ tzw. ma³e twierdzenie Fermata o podzielno¶ci przez liczby pierwsze oraz twierdzenie, podane równie¿ przez Fermata bez dowodu (chocia¿ prawdopodobnie Fermat zna³ ten dowód), o przedstawieniu w sposób jednoznaczny liczby pierwszej, danej w formie 4 n liczba ca³kowita), w postaci sumy dwóch kwadratów. To ostatnie twierdzenie zosta³o udowodnione przez matematyka szwajcarskiego L. Eulera. Podobno znalezienie dowodu zajê³o Eulerowi siedem lat. Nie wszystkie hipotezy Fermata okaza³y siê prawdziwe. Wierzy³ on np., i¿ ka¿da liczba o postaci 2 n n = 0, l, 2, 3, 4...) jest liczb± pierwsz±. Formu³a ta okre¶la liczby pierwsze dla n =

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9. Pierre De Fermat Pierre de Fermat (1601 1665) From `A Short Account of the Historyof Mathematics' (4th edition, 1908) by WW Rouse Ball. While http://www.engr.iupui.edu/~orr/webpages/cpt120/mathbios/pdefer.htm

Pierre de Fermat From `A Short Account of the History of Mathematics' (4th edition, 1908) by W. W. Rouse Ball. While Descartes was laying the foundations of analytical geometry, the same subject was occupying the attention of another and not less distinguished Frenchman. This was Fermat. Pierre de Fermat , who was born near Montauban in 1601, and died at Castres on January 12, 1665, was the son of a leather-merchant; he was educated at home; in 1631 he obtained the post of councillor for the local parliament at Toulouse, and he discharged the duties of the office with scrupulous accuracy and fidelity. There, devoting most of his leisure to mathematics, he spent the remainder of his life - a life which, but for a somewhat acrimonious dispute with Descartes on the validity of certain analysis used by the latter, was unruffled by any event which calls for special notice. The dispute was chiefly due to the obscurity of Descartes, but the tact and courtesy of Fermat brought it to a friendly conclusion. Fermat was a good scholar, and amused himself by conjecturally restoring the work of Apollonius on plane loci. Except a few isolated papers, Fermat published nothing in his lifetime, and gave no systematic exposition of his methods. Some of the most striking of his results were found after his death on loose sheets of paper or written in the margins of works which he had read and annotated, and are unaccompanied by any proof. It is thus somewhat difficult to estimate the dates and originality of his work. He was constitutionally modest and retiring, and does not seem to have intended his papers to be published. It is probable that he revised his notes as occasion required, and that his published works represent the final form of his researches, and therefore cannot be dated much earlier than 1660. I shall consider separately (i) his investigations in the theory of numbers; (ii) his use in geometry of analysis and of infinitesimals; and (iii) his method for treating questions of probability.

10. Mathematicians - Pierre de Fermat Pierre de Fermat. Pierre de Fermat lived in the early 17th century. Like Descarteswho lived at the same time and was also French, Fermat studied law. http://ch172.thinkquest.hostcenter.ch/mathematicians3.html

Intro Leonhard Euler Pierre de Fermat Carl Friedrich Gauss Sophia Kowalewskaja Leonardo da Vinci Isaac Newton ... Mathematicians Pierre de Fermat Pierre de Fermat lived in the early 17th century. Like Descartes who lived at the same time and was also French, Fermat studied law. Mathematically they even made some of the same discoveries. For example, Fermat started using the coordinate system a few years earlier than Descartes. But Descartes was the one who spread its use, so it got his name. Fermat was very talented in linguistics and mathematics. He was especially interested in number theory; how different numbers are built up and how we can take them apart. He made a number of discoveries on this subject. Below are a couple of examples: n p-1 =1 mod p if p is a prime number With modular arithmetic we can easily see that his statement is correct: let's take p=5 if n=1, then 1 =1 mod 5 if n=2, then 2 = 16 = 1 mod 5 if n=3, then 3 = 81 = 1 mod 5 etc. Any prime number that can be expressed as p=4n+1 (that's the same as 1 mod 4), can also be expressed as the sum of two squares. Let's see if that really works.

11. Pierre De Fermat Pierre de Fermat. Pierre de Fermat took the ideas of Descartes andexpanded upon them to give us a complete picture of algebra. He http://www.chembio.uoguelph.ca/educmat/chm386/rudiment/tourclas/fermat.htm

Pierre de Fermat Pierre de Fermat took the ideas of Descartes and expanded upon them to give us a complete picture of algebra. He also worked extensively with light and laid the foundation for geometrical optics. In explaining the refraction of light he put forward his "principle of least time" to predict the path followed by a "ray of light". This principle and its variants will show up again in our story. He lived from 1601 to 1665. Author: Dan Thomas email: Last Updated: Thursday, July 4, 1996

12. Pierre De Fermat Pierre de fermat pierre de Fermat was born in 1601 in the French townof Beaumontde-Lomange. Since he was born into a wealthy family http://www.missouri.edu/~cst398/fermat/contents/fermat.htm

Pierre de Fermat Pierre de Fermat was born in 1601 in the French town of Beaumont-de-Lomange. Since he was born into a wealthy family, Fermat received his education from a local monastery, and then he studied University of Toulouse. It may seem strange that the instigator of such an infamous problem was not a professional mathematician at all; rather, he was a lawyer. In fact, Fermat was a rather high ranking official in the French government, and he was even appointed to the Parliament of Toulouse. It was not Fermat's accomplishments as a lawyer that made him famous, however. In his free time, he devoted his attention to the pursuit of mathematics, and it seems that he was quite gifted in this area. Fermat has been dubbed "The Prince of Amateurs" by E.T. Bell, and he has left his mark on the mathematical world in his contributions to mathematics. For example, it was through the correspondence of Fermat and Blaise Pascal that the mathematical representations of the laws of probability were born. Also, it is a common belief that Sir Isaac Newton independently developed the mathematics known as calculus, but a note written by Newton (discovered in 1934) revealed that Newton based his ideas of differential calculus on "Monsieur Fermat's method of drawing tangents."* Even though Fermat's contributions to these branches of mathematics are extremely important, his most profound work involved the theory of numbers. Fermat was particularly interested in the behavior of numbers, and he enjoyed solving problems in an old text written by Diophantus, the famous Greek mathematician. The name of the text was the

13. Pierre De Fermat Pierre de Fermat (16011665) studied law at Toulouse. He became councillorfor the parliament of Toulouse in 1631. He published http://www.brown.edu/Students/OHJC/hm4/fermat.htm

Pierre de Fermat (1601-1665) studied law at Toulouse. He became councillor for the parliament of Toulouse in 1631. He published an important work describing how to find extrema of curves. Most importantly, he (along with Rene Descartes ) is known as one of the fathers of coordinate geometry.

14. Pierre De Fermat Pierre de Fermat. 2/24/99. Click here to start. Table of Contents. Pierre deFermat. Pierre de Fermat education. Pierre de Fermat - early career. http://www.hsu.edu/faculty/worthf/mathematicians/Fermat/

Pierre de Fermat Click here to start Table of Contents Pierre de Fermat Pierre de Fermat - education Pierre de Fermat - early career Pierre de Fermat - the plague ... Pierre de Fermat - Legacy Author: Fred Worth Email: worthf@hsu.edu Home Page: http://www.hsu.edu/faculty/worthf/mathematicians

15. Matematicos     pierre, fermat Nació 17 de Agosto 1601 en Beaumontde-Lomages, Francia    Falleció 12 de Enero 1665 en Castres, Francia http://www.mat.usach.cl/histmat/html/ferm.html

Descartes Apolonio Fermat dijo que había descubierto una prueba ("prueba maravillosa"), pero que no había en la página suficiente margen para darla. Númerosos matemáticos han intentado, sin éxito probar este teorema, el cuál enuncia que dada la ecuación: X n + Y n = Z n A comienzos del siglo XVII el panorama de la matemática justificaba el plural de su denominación : "Las matemáticas", que aún subsiste ahora. "El orden de los sumandos no altera la suma", "El orden de los factores no altera el producto". Euler y Lagrange Gauss Pascal inventó el cálculo de probabilidades. Su obra se halla en el libro "Varia opera mathematica", publicada por su hijo en 1679. Principio de Fermat : formulada en óptica geométrica: "Para ir de un punto a otro, la luz sigue la trayectoria de mínima duración". Referencias:

16. Pierre De Fermat (1601 - 1665) From `A Short Account of the History of Mathematics' (4th edition, 1908) by W. W. Rouse Ball. http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/People/Fermat/RouseBall/RB_Fermat.html

Pierre de Fermat (1601 - 1665) From `A Short Account of the History of Mathematics' (4th edition, 1908) by W. W. Rouse Ball. While Descartes was laying the foundations of analytical geometry, the same subject was occupying the attention of another and not less distinguished Frenchman. This was Fermat. Pierre de Fermat , who was born near Montauban in 1601, and died at Castres on January 12, 1665, was the son of a leather-merchant; he was educated at home; in 1631 he obtained the post of councillor for the local parliament at Toulouse, and he discharged the duties of the office with scrupulous accuracy and fidelity. There, devoting most of his leisure to mathematics, he spent the remainder of his life - a life which, but for a somewhat acrimonious dispute with Descartes on the validity of certain analysis used by the latter, was unruffled by any event which calls for special notice. The dispute was chiefly due to the obscurity of Descartes, but the tact and courtesy of Fermat brought it to a friendly conclusion. Fermat was a good scholar, and amused himself by conjecturally restoring the work of Apollonius on plane loci. Except a few isolated papers, Fermat published nothing in his lifetime, and gave no systematic exposition of his methods. Some of the most striking of his results were found after his death on loose sheets of paper or written in the margins of works which he had read and annotated, and are unaccompanied by any proof. It is thus somewhat difficult to estimate the dates and originality of his work. He was constitutionally modest and retiring, and does not seem to have intended his papers to be published. It is probable that he revised his notes as occasion required, and that his published works represent the final form of his researches, and therefore cannot be dated much earlier than 1660. I shall consider separately (i) his investigations in the theory of numbers; (ii) his use in geometry of analysis and of infinitesimals; and (iii) his method for treating questions of probability.

17. Fermat, Pierre De fermat pierre de (16011665), matematyk i prawnik francuski (radca parlamentu w Tuluzie). Autor prac z dziedziny rachunku prawdopodobiestwa http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/Catalog/Files/fermat.html

Catalog of the Scientific Community Fermat, Pierre de Note: the creators of the Galileo Project and this catalogue cannot answer email on genealogical questions. 1. Dates Born: Beaumont; baptised 20 Aug. 1601 Died: Castres (somewhere near Toulouse), 12 Jan. 1665 Dateinfo: Dates Certain Lifespan: 2. Father Occupation: Merchant His father had a prosperous leather business. He was also second consul (whatever that might have been) of Beaumont. Fermat's uncle and godfather was also a merchant. His mother brought the social status of the parliamentary noblesse de la robe to the family. This certainly says at least affluence. 3. Nationality Birth: French Career: French Death: French 4. Education Schooling: Orleans, LD He received a solid classical secondary education, beginning at the convent of the Cordeliers in Beaumont (run by the Franciscans). After studying with the Franciscans, he then studied with the Jesuits. He may have attended the University of Toulouse. He obtained the degree of Bachelor of Civil Laws from the University of Orleans in 1631. I accept this as the equivalent of a B.A., and in accordance with my practice I list also the degree in law. 5. Religion

18. Fermat a lawyer and government official in Toulouse and because of the office he now heldhe became entitled to change his name from pierre fermat to pierre de fermat http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Fermat.html

Pierre de Fermat Born: 17 Aug 1601 in Beaumont-de-Lomagne, France Died: 12 Jan 1665 in Castres, France Click the picture above to see six larger pictures Show birthplace location Previous (Chronologically) Next Biographies Index Previous (Alphabetically) Next Main index Pierre Fermat 's father was a wealthy leather merchant and second consul of Beaumont- de- Lomagne. Pierre had a brother and two sisters and was almost certainly brought up in the town of his birth. Although there is little evidence concerning his school education it must have been at the local Franciscan monastery. He attended the University of Toulouse before moving to Bordeaux in the second half of the 1620s. In Bordeaux he began his first serious mathematical researches and in 1629 he gave a copy of his restoration of Apollonius 's Plane loci to one of the mathematicians there. Certainly in Bordeaux he was in contact with Beaugrand and during this time he produced important work on maxima and minima which he gave to Etienne d'Espagnet who clearly shared mathematical interests with Fermat. Pierre de Fermat.

19. Fermat's Last Theorem pierre de fermat died in 1665. Today we think of fermat as a number theorist,in fact as perhaps the most famous number theorist who ever lived. description A historical and biographical account.Category Science Math Diophantine Equations fermat s Last Theorem http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Fermat's_last_theorem.html

Fermat's last theorem Number theory index History Topics Index Pierre de Fermat died in 1665. Today we think of Fermat as a number theorist, in fact as perhaps the most famous number theorist who ever lived. It is therefore surprising to find that Fermat was in fact a lawyer and only an amateur mathematician. Also surprising is the fact that he published only one mathematical paper in his life, and that was an anonymous article written as an appendix to a colleague's book. There is a statue of Fermat and his muse in his home town of Toulouse: (Click it to see a larger version) Because Fermat refused to publish his work, his friends feared that it would soon be forgotten unless something was done about it. His son, Samuel undertook the task of collecting Fermat 's letters and other mathematical papers, comments written in books, etc. with the object of publishing his father's mathematical ideas. In this way the famous 'Last theorem' came to be published. It was found by Samuel written as a marginal note in his father's copy of Diophantus 's Arithmetica Fermat's Last Theorem states that x n y n z n has no non-zero integer solutions for x y and z when n Fermat wrote I have discovered a truly remarkable proof which this margin is too small to contain.

20. Fermat Page d'affichage des biographies d'Info Science Fils d'un riche corroyeur, pierre fermat bénéficie d'une éducation privilégiée. http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Fermat.html

Pierre de Fermat Born: 17 Aug 1601 in Beaumont-de-Lomagne, France Died: 12 Jan 1665 in Castres, France Click the picture above to see six larger pictures Show birthplace location Previous (Chronologically) Next Biographies Index Previous (Alphabetically) Next Main index Pierre Fermat 's father was a wealthy leather merchant and second consul of Beaumont- de- Lomagne. Pierre had a brother and two sisters and was almost certainly brought up in the town of his birth. Although there is little evidence concerning his school education it must have been at the local Franciscan monastery. He attended the University of Toulouse before moving to Bordeaux in the second half of the 1620s. In Bordeaux he began his first serious mathematical researches and in 1629 he gave a copy of his restoration of Apollonius 's Plane loci to one of the mathematicians there. Certainly in Bordeaux he was in contact with Beaugrand and during this time he produced important work on maxima and minima which he gave to Etienne d'Espagnet who clearly shared mathematical interests with Fermat. Pierre de Fermat.

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