Pierre de Fermat

Pierre de Fermat (French pronunciation: [pjɛːʁ dəfɛʁˈma]; 17 August 1601 or 1607/8 – 12 January 1665) 

Pierre de Fermat

Happy birthday Pierre de Fermat

Born: 17-Aug-1601Birthplace: Beaumont-de-Lomagne, France
Died: 12-Jan-1665
Location of death: Castres, France
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Mathematician
Nationality: France
Executive summary: Fermat's Last Theorem

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Pierre de Fermat

Pierre de Fermat lived in the early 17th century. LikeDescartes who lived at the same time and was also French, Fermat studied law. Mathematically they even made some of the same discoveries. For example, Fermat started using thecoordinate system a few years earlier than Descartes. But Descartes was the one who spread its use, so it got his name.
Fermat was very talented in linguistics and mathematics. He was especially interested in number theory; how different numbers are built up and how we can take them apart. He made a number of discoveries on this subject. Below are a couple of examples:

n^p-1=1 mod p  if p is a prime number

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