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... 21 KB (2,279 words) - 23:55, 29 March 2024 |
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... 18 KB (2,386 words) - 22:22, 7 April 2024 |
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... 956 bytes (154 words) - 15:57, 23 September 2022 |
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 +... 43 KB (4,579 words) - 15:39, 25 April 2024 |
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... 4 KB (321 words) - 13:43, 17 February 2024 |
The Fermat prize of mathematical research biennially rewards research works in fields where the contributions of Pierre de Fermat have been decisive:... 10 KB (330 words) - 20:42, 7 April 2024 |
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... 17 KB (2,377 words) - 08:27, 18 August 2023 |
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=a2−b2... 10 KB (1,397 words) - 12:47, 10 March 2024 |
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... 27 KB (3,319 words) - 12:29, 24 April 2024 |
named after Pierre de Fermat, a French amateur mathematician. Fermat–Apollonius circle Fermat–Catalan conjecture Fermat cubic Fermat curve Fermat–Euler theorem... 1 KB (103 words) - 09:41, 31 March 2023 |
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... 3 KB (202 words) - 11:37, 24 April 2023 |
Fermat's Room (Spanish: La habitación de Fermat) is a 2007 Spanish thriller film directed by Luis Piedrahita and Rodrigo Sopeña. Three mathematicians... 7 KB (968 words) - 19:06, 20 December 2023 |
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... 5 KB (481 words) - 05:26, 6 April 2024 |
tennis player Pierre Daru (1767–1829), French soldier, statesman, historian, and poet Pierre de Fermat, French lawyer and mathematician Pierre Deladonchamps... 10 KB (1,114 words) - 23:40, 19 March 2024 |
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... 4 KB (434 words) - 20:22, 17 April 2023 |
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... 54 KB (5,155 words) - 03:32, 23 April 2024 |
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... 17 KB (1,528 words) - 00:11, 15 April 2024 |
Blaise Pascal (redirect from Louis de Montalte) of projective geometry at the age of 16. He later corresponded with Pierre de Fermat on probability theory, strongly influencing the development of modern... 59 KB (6,878 words) - 07:31, 26 April 2024 |
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... 23 KB (2,817 words) - 10:03, 4 April 2024 |
moving in straight lines. Rectilinear propagation was discovered by Pierre de Fermat. Take three cardboard A, B and C, of the same size. Make a pin hole... 2 KB (247 words) - 07:53, 4 February 2024 |
of finite differences developed in Europe at around the same time. Pierre de Fermat, claiming that he borrowed from Diophantus, introduced the concept... 73 KB (8,575 words) - 20:40, 25 April 2024 |
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... 17 KB (2,084 words) - 16:01, 25 November 2023 |
square root. In 1640 Pierre de Fermat stated (without proof) Fermat's little theorem (later proved by Leibniz and Euler). Fermat also investigated the... 116 KB (14,104 words) - 05:51, 23 April 2024 |
Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem is a proof by British mathematician Andrew Wiles of a special case of the modularity theorem for elliptic curves... 58 KB (5,802 words) - 05:40, 26 April 2024 |
Fermat's right triangle theorem is a non-existence proof in number theory, published in 1670 among the works of Pierre de Fermat, soon after his death... 16 KB (2,192 words) - 14:30, 4 April 2024 |
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... 111 KB (10,818 words) - 12:51, 23 April 2024 |