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Pierre de Fermat
Pierre de Fermat was a French magistrate, polymath, and above all, a mathematician who is given credit for early developments that led to infinitesimal calculus, including his technique of adequality. In particular, he is recognized for his discovery of an original method of finding the greatest and the smallest ordinates of curved lines, which is analogous to that of differential calculus, then u…
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science · French mathematician and lawyer (1601–1665) · mathematician · lawyer · judge · polyglot · jurist · also Pierre de Fermat, Fermat, Pierre Fermat
Born 17 August 1601 · Died 12 January 1665 · Q75655
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Died 1665-01-12.
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“I have discovered a truly remarkable proof of this theorem which this margin is too small to contain.”
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Studied at Old University of Orléans (1623–1626).
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Born 1601-08-17.
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