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

Fascination with the Fermat riddle nonetheless lingered among a subset of mathematicians, professional and amateur.

From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2022

It seems unlikely that Mr. Vaughn had a direct impact on what turned out to be the Byzantine math of the Fermat proof.

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

She wrote a popular book on analytic geometry, published in 1748, which included an interesting curve that had been studied by Fermat in 1630.

From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016

A range of lofty hills, an offshoot of the Altai range, extends from Tacitus towards Fermat.

From The Moon A Full Description and Map of its Principal Physical Features by Elger, Thomas Gwyn