Fermat

[ fer-ma; English fer-mah ]

noun

1. Pierre de [pye, r, d, uh], 1601–65, French mathematician.

Fermat

/ fɛrma; fɜːˈmæt /

noun

1. FermatPierre de16011665MFrenchSCIENCE: mathematician Pierre de (pjɛr də). 1601–65, French mathematician, regarded as the founder of the modern theory of numbers. He studied the properties of whole numbers and, with Pascal, investigated the theory of probability

Fermat

/ fĕr-mä′ /

1. French mathematician who is best known for his work on probability and on the properties of numbers. He formulated Fermat's last theorem, which remained unsolved for over three hundred years.

Example Sentences

We should say, Fermat went to such a page, Archimedes went a few pages further.

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His communication to Descartes was not published in full until after his death (Fermat, Opera varia, 1679).

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The same disregard of dates is shown in the hasty remarks on Fermat by Playfair.

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Simson, the celebrated restorer of Greek geometry, said that Fermat was the only modern who understood porisms.

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Several other discoveries, both in pure algebra and geometry, illustrate the name of Fermat.

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