Pierre de Fermat (French: [pjɛʁ də fɛʁma]; between 31 October and 6 December 1607 – 12 January 1665) was a French mathematician who is given credit for...
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after Pierre de Fermat, who stated it in 1640. It is called the "little theorem" to distinguish it from Fermat's Last Theorem. Pierre de Fermat first...
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French mathematician Pierre de Fermat in 1662, as a means of explaining the ordinary law of refraction of light (Fig. 1), Fermat's principle was initially...
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17th-century mathematician Pierre de Fermat engendered many theorems. Fermat's theorem may refer to one of the following theorems: Fermat's Last Theorem, about...
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In mathematics, a Fermat number, named after Pierre de Fermat, the first known to have studied them, is a positive integer of the form: F n = 2 2 n +...
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The Lycée Pierre-de-Fermat, also referred to simply as Pierre-de-Fermat, is a public Lycée, located in the Parvis des Jacobins in Toulouse, in the immediate...
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search for a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, first conjectured by Pierre de Fermat in 1637, and explores how many mathematicians such as Évariste Galois...
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is proportional to the distance from the center). Fermat spirals are named after Pierre de Fermat. Their applications include curvature continuous blending...
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The Fermat prize of mathematical research biennially rewards research works in fields where the contributions of Pierre de Fermat have been decisive:...
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proposition was first stated as a theorem by Pierre de Fermat around 1637 in the margin of a copy of Arithmetica. Fermat added that he had a proof that was too...
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Adequality (section Fermat's method)
Adequality is a technique developed by Pierre de Fermat in his treatise Methodus ad disquirendam maximam et minimam (a Latin treatise circulated in France...
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Fermat's factorization method, named after Pierre de Fermat, is based on the representation of an odd integer as the difference of two squares: N = a...
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billion years ago. It is named for 17th century French mathematician Pierre de Fermat. By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing...
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Fermat's Last Theorem is a theorem in number theory, originally stated by Pierre de Fermat in 1637 and proven by Andrew Wiles in 1995. The statement of...
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named after Pierre de Fermat, a French amateur mathematician. Fermat–Apollonius circle Fermat–Catalan conjecture Fermat cubic Fermat curve Fermat–Euler theorem...
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tennis player Pierre Daru (1767–1829), French soldier, statesman, historian, and poet Pierre de Fermat, French lawyer and mathematician Pierre Deladonchamps...
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Fermat's Room (Spanish: La habitación de Fermat) is a 2007 Spanish thriller film directed by Luis Piedrahita and Rodrigo Sopeña. Three mathematicians...
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adaequalitas in Latin, and became the technique of adequality developed by Pierre de Fermat to find maxima for functions and tangent lines to curves. Although...
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Geometric median (redirect from Fermat–Weber point)
known as Fermat's problem; it arises in the construction of minimal Steiner trees, and was originally posed as a problem by Pierre de Fermat and solved...
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numbers) 17 = 12 + 5 (pentagonal numbers). The theorem is named after Pierre de Fermat, who stated it, in 1638, without proof, promising to write it in a...
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Blaise Pascal (redirect from Louis de Montalte)
subject of conic sections at the age of 16. He later corresponded with Pierre de Fermat on probability theory, strongly influencing the development of modern...
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Witch of Agnesi (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
opposite points of a circle. The curve was studied as early as 1653 by Pierre de Fermat, in 1703 by Guido Grandi, and by Isaac Newton. It gets its name from...
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p-derivation. The quotient is named after Pierre de Fermat. If the base a is coprime to the exponent p then Fermat's little theorem says that qp(a) will be...
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Carlos Tavares (category Lycée Pierre-de-Fermat alumni)
the age of 17 to follow a preparatory course in maths at the Lycée Pierre-de-Fermat in Toulouse. He then graduated as an engineer from the École Centrale...
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the entire domain (the global or absolute extrema) of a function. Pierre de Fermat was one of the first mathematicians to propose a general technique...
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In geometry, the Fermat cubic, named after Pierre de Fermat, is a surface defined by x 3 + y 3 + z 3 = 1. {\displaystyle x^{3}+y^{3}+z^{3}=1.\ } Methods...
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Toulouse (redirect from Tolosa de Llenguadoc)
Medicine; 17th-century mathematician Pierre de Fermat (1607-1665), who spent his life in Toulouse, where he wrote Fermat's Last Theorem and was a lawyer in...
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Analytic geometry was independently invented by René Descartes and Pierre de Fermat, although Descartes is sometimes given sole credit. Cartesian geometry...
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Michael Sean Mahoney (section Fermat biography)
held in his honor at Princeton in May 2009. Mahoney's biography of Pierre de Fermat received much critical attention including a scathing review by André...
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of finite differences developed in Europe at around the same time. Pierre de Fermat, claiming that he borrowed from Diophantus, introduced the concept...
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