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Definition of Fermat
1. Noun. French mathematician who founded number theory; contributed (with Pascal) to the theory of probability (1601-1665).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fermat
Literary usage of Fermat
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Short History of Science by William Thompson Sedgwick, Harry Walter Tyler (1917)
"But little younger than Descartes and Cavalieri was Pierre de fermat ...
Some writers even credit fermat with a substantial share in the invention of the ..."
2. The Theory of Numbers by Robert Daniel Carmichael (1914)
"It was first announced by fermat in 1679, but without proof. The first proof of
it was given by Euler in 1736. This proof may be stated as follows: From the ..."
3. Introduction to the Literature Of Europe in the Fifteenth,sixteenth and by Henry Hallam (1879)
"The works of fermat were not published till long after his death in 1665; ...
In these controversies Descartes never behaved to fermat with the respect due ..."
4. The Principles and Methods of Geometrical Optics: Especially as Applied to by James Powell Cocke Southall (1910)
"fermat' (1608-1665), arguing from an assumed law of the economy of nature that
light must be propagated from one point to another in the shortest time, ..."
5. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1868)
"The following communications were read :— I. " On the Mysteries of Numbers alluded
to by fermat."—Second Communication. By the Right Hon. ..."
6. A History of the Mathematical Theory of Probability from the Time of Pascal by Isaac Todhunter (1865)
"PASCAL AND fermat. 10. THE indications which we have given in the preceding
Chapter of the subsequent Theory of Probability are extremely slight; ..."
7. Mirrors, Prisms and Lenses: A Text-book of Geometrical Optics by James Powell Cocke Southall (1918)
"... may be combined into a general law which was first announced about 1665 by
the French philosopher fermat, and which may be stated as follows: The actual ..."
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