Fermat
Americannoun
noun
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Some attendees complained to Mr. Vaughn that direct attacks on the Fermat question had been sidelined by the elliptic-curve focus, Dr. Goldfeld recalled Mr. Vaughn as saying.
From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2022
Fermat also left behind a large body of what he called theorems.
From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2022
In September 1981, Mr. Vaughn funded the world’s first big conference on the Fermat riddle.
From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2022
The exotic forms led Dr. Wiles to the Fermat breakthrough.
From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2022
As M. Fermat had assaulted his Dioptricks, so He reciprocally examined his Treatise De Maximis & Minimis, pretending to have met with Paralogismes in it.
From Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World by Henry Oldenburg
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