Pierre de Fermat
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Pierre de Fermat was a 17th-century French mathematician renowned for his work in number theory, probability, and analytic geometry, and especially for Fermat's Last Theorem.
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- de Fermat ×1
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French mathematician
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human → jurist → mathematician → |
| countryOfCitizenship |
Kingdom of France
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| educatedAt |
University of Orléans
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| era |
17th century
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| ethnicGroup |
French
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| familyName |
de Fermat
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| fieldOfWork |
analytic geometry
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calculus → mathematics → number theory → optics → probability theory → |
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Pierre
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| influenced |
Joseph-Louis Lagrange
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Leonhard Euler → development of calculus → modern probability theory → number theory → |
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François Viète
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ancient Greek mathematics → |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
French
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Latin → |
| movement |
Scientific Revolution
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| name |
Pierre de Fermat
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French
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| notableAchievement |
co-founding modern number theory
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foundational work in probability with Pascal → pioneering analytic geometry independently of Descartes → |
| notableColleague |
Blaise Pascal
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Christiaan Huygens → Marin Mersenne → René Descartes → |
| notableIdea |
early development of differential calculus
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foundations of analytic geometry → principle of least time in optics → probability theory with Blaise Pascal → |
| notableStudent |
Pierre de Carcavi
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| notableWork |
Fermat curve
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Fermat number → Fermat point → Fermat polygonal number theorem → Fermat prime → Fermat's Last Theorem → Fermat's little theorem → Fermat's principle → Fermat's theorem on sums of two squares → method of adequality → |
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lawyer
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magistrate → |
| positionHeld |
counsellor at the Parlement of Toulouse
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male
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Toulouse
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Referenced by (6)
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Andrew Wiles
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Blaise Pascal → |
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Pierre de Fermat
("de Fermat")
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Cartesian coordinate system
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Pierre de Fermat
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