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Descartes Apolonio Fermat dijo que había descubierto una prueba ("prueba maravillosa"), pero que no había en la página suficiente margen para darla. Númerosos matemáticos han intentado, sin éxito probar este teorema, el cuál enuncia que dada la ecuación: X n + Y n = Z n A comienzos del siglo XVII el panorama de la matemática justificaba el plural de su denominación : "Las matemáticas", que aún subsiste ahora. "El orden de los sumandos no altera la suma", "El orden de los factores no altera el producto". Euler y Lagrange Gauss Pascal inventó el cálculo de probabilidades. Su obra se halla en el libro "Varia opera mathematica", publicada por su hijo en 1679. Principio de Fermat : formulada en óptica geométrica: "Para ir de un punto a otro, la luz sigue la trayectoria de mínima duración". Referencias:

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Branch of Science Mathematicians Nationality French Fermat, Pierre de (1601-1665) French lawyer who pursued mathematics in his spare time. Although he pursued mathematics as an amateur, his work in number theory was of such exceptional quality and erudition that he is generally regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians of all times. He had the habit of scribbling notes in the margins of books or in letters to friends rather than publishing them. He discovered analytic geometry independently of Descartes , but did not publish his work. He founded the theory of probability with Pascal and discovered the least time principle which states that light will travel through an optical system in such a way as to pass from starting to ending point in the least amount of time (a concept from calculus of variations ). Fermat solved many fundamental calculus problems, and made important contributions to number theory and optics. He was also fluent in French, Italian, Spanish, Latin, and Greek. He is most famous for scribbling a note in the margin of a book by Diophantus that he had discovered a proof that the equation x n y n z n has no integer solutions for n >2. He stated "I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which however the margin is not large enough to contain." The proposition, which came to be known as

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Wikimedia needs your help in its 21-day fund drive. See our fundraising page Over US$155,000 has been donated since the drive began on 19 August. Thank you for your generosity! Pierre de Fermat From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. (Redirected from Fermat Pierre de Fermat Pierre de Fermat August 20 January 12 ) was a French lawyer at the Parlement of Toulouse , southern France , and a mathematician who is given credit for the development of modern calculus . In particular, he is the precursor of differential calculus with his method of finding the greatest and the smallest ordinates of curved lines, analogous to that of the then unknown differential calculus . Perhaps even more important, his brilliant researches in the theory of numbers entitle him to rank as the founder of the modern theory. He also made notable contributions to analytic geometry and probability Fermat worked on number theory while preparing an edition of Diophantus , and the notes and comments thereon contained the numerous theorems of considerable elegance necessary to develop the theory of numbers. Fermat is famous for his "Enigma" that was an extension of Pythagorean Theorem, also known as Fermat's last theorem , which baffled mathematicians for more than 300 years, and was only finally proven in . Together with Ren© Descartes , Fermat was one of the two leading mathematicians of the first half of the 17th century . Independently of Descartes, he discovered the fundamental principle of

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Pierre de Fermat French Mathematician 8-17-1601 to 12-12-1665 Pierre Fermat's father was a wealthy leather merchant and second consul of Beaumont- de- Lomagne. He was probably educated in his early years at the local Franciscan monastery. He attended the University of Toulouse before moving to Bordeau in the second half of the 1620s. In Bordeau he began his first serious mathematical researches and in 1629 he had completed his restoration of Apollonius's "Plane Loci." In Bordeau he was in contact with Beaugrand and produced important work on maxima and minima. From Bordeau Fermat went to Orléans where he studied law at the University. He received a degree in civil law and he purchased the offices of councillor at the parliament in Toulouse. Fermat's meteoric rise through the government is evidenced by his multiple appointments between 1631 and 1653. News of his death due to the plague of the 1650s was exaggerated: I informed you earlier of the death of Fermat. He is alive, and we no longer fear for his health, even though we had counted him among the dead a short time ago. The following report, made to Colbert the leading figure in France at the time, has a ring of truth:-

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55. Molecular Expressions: Science, Optics And You - Timeline - Pierre De Fermat pierre de fermat was a lawyer by occupation, but possessed one of the greatestmathematical minds of the seventeenth century. http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/optics/timeline/people/fermat.html

Visit the Molecular Expressions Website Galleria Photo Gallery ... Home Pierre de Fermat Pierre de Fermat was a lawyer by occupation, but possessed one of the greatest mathematical minds of the seventeenth century. He made major contributions to geometric optics, modern number theory, probability theory, analytic geometry, and is generally considered the father of differential calculus . Though there is some doubt as to the date of his birth, Fermat was baptized on August 20, 1601 in Beaumont-de-Lomagne, France. His father was a successful merchant and his mother hailed from a well-to-do family. Fermat most likely received his primary education from a local Franciscan monastery and later studied at the University of Toulouse. Fermat moved to Bordeaux, France for a few years in the 1620s, where he undertook an informal study of mathematics, but ultimately settled on law as a profession, receiving his Bachelors degree in Civil Law from the University of Orleans. In 1631, Fermat formally entered the legal profession, serving in the local Parliament at Toulouse. That same year he married his fourth cousin, Louise de Long, with whom he would later have five children. Over time, Fermat gradually attained legal positions with increasing responsibility and prestige, becoming a member of the criminal court in 1638 and a King's councilor in 1648, a post he retained for the rest of his life. In addition to his professional duties, Fermat carried on an extensive correspondence with a number of prominent Parisian mathematicians, sometimes proposing analytical problems to them that he had already solved. Some of his earliest work examined the experiments of Galileo and the paths of freefalling objects. During his efforts to disprove several of the postulates made by Galileo, Fermat developed a new method of quadrature for curves. Then, when attempting to explain his techniques to his correspondents, he laid down the fundamental ideas of differential calculus in a paper entitled the "

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EDinformatics Home Today is More Great Thinkers Pierre de Fermat Pierre de Fermat Pierre de Fermat August 17 January 12 ) was a French mathematician who is generally given minor credit for the development of modern calculus ; in particular, for his work regarding tangents and stationary points . His work was such that he is sometimes regarded as the "father" of, both, differential calculus and number theory . He also made notable contributions to analytic geometry and probability Fermat was born near Montauban France ; he died at Castres Fermat worked on number theory while preparing an edition of Diophantus , and the notes and comments thereon contained the numerous theorems of considerable elegance necessary to develop the theory of numbers. Fermat is famous for his "Enigma" that was an extension of Pythagorean Theorem, also known as Fermat's Last Theorem. Together with René Descartes , Fermat was one of the two leading mathematicians of the first half of the 17th century . Independently of Descartes, he discovered the fundamental principle of

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