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

Mr. Vaughn’s financial aid, he added, eventually led to wide Fermat collaborations, including an early gathering that Dr. Wiles helped organize.

From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2022

The exotic forms led Dr. Wiles to the Fermat breakthrough.

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

She had made her own the discoveries of Newton, Leibnitz, Roberval, Fermat, Descartes, Riccati, Euler, the brothers Bernouilli, and had mastered the entire science of mathematics then known.

From Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind by Zahm, John Augustine