The mathematical career of Pierre de Fermat, 1601-1665
by Michael Sean Mahoney
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Hailed as one of the greatest mathematical results of the twentieth century, the recent proof of Fermat's Last Theorem by Andrew Wiles brought to public attention the enigmatic problem-solver Pierre de Fermat, who centuries ago stated his famous conjecture in a margin of a book, writing that he did not have enough room to show his "truly marvelous demonstration." Along with formulating this proposition - x[superscript n] + y[superscript n] = z[superscript n] has no rational solution for n > 2 - Fermat, an inventor of analytic geometry, also laid the foundations of differential and integral calculus, established, together with Pascal, the conceptual guidelines of the theory of probability, and created modern number theory.
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The mathematical career of Pierre de Fermat, 1601-1665
1994, Princeton University Press
in English
- 2nd ed.
0691036667 9780691036663
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The mathematical career of Pierre de Fermat (1601-1665).
1973, Princeton University Press
in English
0691081190 9780691081199
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