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    Fermat is a lunar impact crater located to the west of the Rupes Altai escarpment. To the west-southwest is the larger crater Sacrobosco, and to the southwest...
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  • Fermat's theorem on sums of two squares Fermat theory Pell–Fermat equation 12007 Fermat Fermat (computer algebra system) Fermat (crater) Fermat Prize...
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    southeast of the crater Sacrobosco, and southwest of Polybius. To the northwest along the same flank of the formation is the crater Fermat. The rim of Pons...
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    To the northwest of Sacrobosco is the double crater Abenezra and Azophi. To the east-northeast is Fermat, and to the south-southwest lies Pontanus. By...
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  • the crater and the person the crater is named for. Where a crater formation has associated satellite craters, these are detailed on the main crater description...
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  • Torricelli's trumpet or Gabriel's Horn, a geometric figure Torricelli point or Fermat point, a point such that the total distance from the three vertices of the...
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    ellipsoids – appeared in the second volume. In 1830, he gave a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem for exponent n = 5, which was also proven by Lejeune Dirichlet...
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    was a German mathematician. In number theory, he proved special cases of Fermat's last theorem and created analytic number theory. In analysis, he advanced...
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    algorithm (Algorithmic efficiency) Lamé crater Piet Hein Julius Plücker Helmholtz equation Proof of Fermat's Last Theorem for specific exponents Stefan...
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    Sluze were working on the lines suggested by Fermat towards the methods of the differential calculus. Fermat had observed that the tangent at a point P...
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    stated the principle of least time for refraction which would later become Fermat's principle. He made major contributions to catoptrics and dioptrics by studying...
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    invention of photography, the grant for the publication of the works of Fermat and Laplace, the acquisition of the museum of Cluny, the development of...
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    Agnesi discussed a curve earlier studied and constructed by Pierre de Fermat and Guido Grandi. Agnesi described the curve as versiera in Italian, which...
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    mathematical star. One of his great successes at that time was the proof of Fermat's polygonal number theorem. He quit his engineering job, and received a one-year...
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    first to apply elliptic functions to number theory, for example proving Fermat's two-square theorem and Lagrange's four-square theorem, and similar results...
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    friend. Billy maintained a correspondence with the mathematician Pierre de Fermat. Billy produced a number of results in number theory which have been named...
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    La Géométrie, Descartes exploited the discoveries he made with Pierre de Fermat. This later became known as Cartesian Geometry. Descartes continued to publish...
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  • Thumbnail for Joseph-Louis Lagrange
    1773, 1775, and 1777 gave demonstrations of several results enunciated by Fermat, and not previously proved. His Recherches d'Arithmétique of 1775 developed...
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    the Middle Ages, was superseded during the Renaissance. The Apollonius crater on the Moon is named in his honor. Despite his momentous contributions to...
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    other mathematicians there. While in Copenhagen, Abel did some work on Fermat's Last Theorem. Abel's uncle, Peder Mandrup Tuxen, lived at the naval base...
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  • Fellinian Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician – Fermat's Last Theorem, Fermat's little theorem, Fermat's principle, Fermat's factorization method...
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  • for the development of modern beekeeping JPL · 12006 12007 Fermat 1996 TD7 Pierre de Fermat, (1601–1665), a lawyer in Toulouse, is considered the greatest...
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    to as 'the highest geometer', in the century when Descartes, Cavalieri, Fermat and Huygens lived too. He calculated the coordinates of the center of gravity...
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  • Named Honorary Fellow for 2007". November 2006. Retrieved March 1, 2009. "Fermat's Last Theorem - The TV Documentary". Archived from the original on February...
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    all were typical Jesuit achievements, and scientists as influential as Fermat, Huygens, Leibniz, and Newton were not alone in counting Jesuits among their...
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  • 18 September 1997 (1997-09-18) 2 "Out of Asia" 25 September 1997 (1997-09-25) 3 "Fermat's Last Theorem" 2 October 1997 (1997-10-02) 4 "The Virus That Cures"...
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    1258410. PMID 25359975. S2CID 37395258. Coghlan, Andy. "Earth's oldest impact crater found in Greenland". New Scientist. Retrieved 2023-02-20. Christopher Spencer...
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  • discovery of planets outside the Solar System) 1994: Andrew Wiles proves Fermat's Last Theorem 1995: Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz definitively observe...
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