Fermat

American  

[fer-ma, fer-mah] / fɛrˈma, fɛrˈmɑ /

noun

1. Pierre de 1601–65, French mathematician.

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Fermat British  

/ fɛrma, fɜːˈmæt /

noun

1. 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

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Fermat Scientific  

/ 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.

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Example Sentences

In the 1970s and 1980s, he directed millions of dollars to Fermat conferences, authors and researchers, giving the old field new life and social acceptability.

From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2022

“It’s really great to have people like Vaughn,” said Neal I. Koblitz, a professor of mathematics at the University of Washington who edited a Fermat book for the Vaughn Foundation.

From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2022

After more than three centuries of effort, the Fermat infinities had finally been surmounted, and civilization, amazingly, was still intact.

From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2022

Both mathematicians benefited from the work of predecessors, such as Barrow, Fermat, and Cavalieri.

From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016

At the same time he challenged Roberval and Fermat to construct the tangent; Roberval failed but Fermat succeeded.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various