Pierre de Fermat

Yet a theorem about prime numbers proved by the 17th-century Frenchman Pierre de Fermat not his famous "Last Theorem", which he did not actually prove, seemingly having no connection to the everyday world, ultimately led to the encryption techniques that safeguard your password when you log on to your bank or make a purchase at an online bookstore.

The Numbers Game Keith Devlin 2012

Proving it has been a kind of holy grail for mathematicians ever since 1637, when Pierre de Fermat wrote in the margin of an old mathematics book, ‘I have a truly marvellous proof . . . which this margin is too narrow to contain.’

THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

Proving it has been a kind of holy grail for mathematicians ever since 1637, when Pierre de Fermat wrote in the margin of an old mathematics book, ‘I have a truly marvellous proof . . . which this margin is too narrow to contain.’

THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

So asserted French mathematician Pierre de Fermat in 1637, in what became the biggest historical dare in mathematics.

New Answer For An Old Question 2008

The mathematical study of probability originated with Blaise Pascal and Pierre de Fermat in the mid-17th century.

Inductive Logic Hawthorne, James 2008

Using your logic, Bob, we should neglect the mathematics developed by Pierre de Fermat on the grounds that he was a lawyer and government official with no mathematical duties…..

Title to MBH98 Source Code « Climate Audit 2005

Actually, it was invented at about the same time by Pierre de Fermat, but while Descartes had the bad habit of not including citations in his publications, Fermat had the worse habit of not even publishing.

Euclid’s Window Leonard Mlodinow 2001

Actually, it was invented at about the same time by Pierre de Fermat, but while Descartes had the bad habit of not including citations in his publications, Fermat had the worse habit of not even publishing.

Euclid’s Window Leonard Mlodinow 2001

Actually, it was invented at about the same time by Pierre de Fermat, but while Descartes had the bad habit of not including citations in his publications, Fermat had the worse habit of not even publishing.

Euclid’s Window Leonard Mlodinow 2001

The calculus of chances as we know it first became the subject of general mathematical interest in France at the closing half of the seventeenth century, in the form of corre - spondence between Pascal and Pierre de Fermat.

CHANCE MAURICE KENDALL 1968