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

Still, he expressed no regrets about his mathematical past and seemed confident that history would see him as playing a decisive role in the Fermat breakthrough.

From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2022

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 said that he and his wife had no children and that the Fermat triumph was how he hoped he would be remembered.

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

His genius in the theory of numbers was probably never excelled except by Fermat.

From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by Smith, David Eugene