Fermat

[fer-ma, fer-mah]

noun

1. Pierre de 1601–65, French mathematician.

Fermat

/ 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

Fermat

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

The meaning of life, the laws of general relativity, quantum mechanics, Fermat's last theorem.

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But if the abc conjecture is true, Fermat’s theorem is more easily explained.

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The clock would address baseball’s most infuriating dead time — hitters wandering away from home plate during an at-bat, as though puzzling about Fermat’s Last Theorem.

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Fermat’s last theorem, a riddle put forward by one of history’s great mathematicians, had baffled experts for more than 300 years.

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However, “the consequences of it are quite deep and the techniques that we’re using to apply it” to different cases are rooted in earlier work on the Fermat problem, Kedlaya notes.

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