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

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

Fermat also left behind a large body of what he called theorems.

From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2022

By then, Mr. Vaughn was busy revitalizing the hunt for a Fermat solution and starting to heed his advisers on the wisdom of pursuing elliptic-curve studies.

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

From the time when Pascal and Fermat established its first principles, it has rendered and continues daily to render services of the most eminent kind.

From Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men by Grant, Robert