Fermat
Marginal proof claimant
Fermat refers to Pierre de Fermat, a seventeenth-century French mathematician whose work laid foundations for probability theory, analytic geometry, and number theory.
He is best known for Fermat's Last Theorem, a conjecture he claimed to have proven but left no proof—it remained unsolved for over 350 years until Andrew Wiles proved it in 1995.
Fermat's little theorem is fundamental in cryptography and primality testing.
Demonstrated logical conclusion
- conjectureGuess from limited facts
- proofDemonstration of truth
- PierreFrench male name
- ToulouseOccitanie regional capital
lawyer · amateur · number theory · marginal note · correspondence · Pascal · factorization · cryptography
Years 1601-1700
- BaroqueOrnate artistic period
- DescartesCogito ergo sum's author
- PascalFrench male name
- GalileoRenaissance astronomer from Italy
Leibniz · Newton · Enlightenment · Louis XIV · French · classical · natural philosophy · Royal Society
Science of illumination
- refractionWave bending between media
- lightVisible electromagnetic radiation
- variationalRelating to functional extremization
- pathRoute for traveling
theorem
Demonstrated logical conclusion
- conjectureGuess from limited facts
- proofDemonstration of truth
- PierreFrench male name
Toulouse · lawyer · amateur · number theory · marginal note · correspondence · Pascal · factorization · cryptography · RSA
17th century
Years 1601-1700
Galileo · Leibniz · Newton · Enlightenment · Louis XIV · French · classical · natural philosophy · Royal Society · scientific revolution
optics
Science of illumination
- refractionWave bending between media
- lightVisible electromagnetic radiation
- variationalRelating to functional extremization
path · minimization · physics
- math historyEuclid, Pythagoras, Newton, Leibniz, Euler
- MathematiciansEuclid, Gauss, Euler, Archimedes, Pythagoras
- 17th Century FiguresOliver Cromwell, Louis XIV, Isaac Newton, Rene Descartes, Rembrandt
- Baroque Era FiguresDescartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Hobbes
- Early MathematiciansEuler, Pascal, Leibniz, Newton, Bernoulli
- Math Worldalgebra, calculus, geometry, equations, proofs
- Fermat's Last TheoremNo integer cubes sum to cubes