Pierre de Fermat, 1601-1665. French lawyer and government official most remembered for his work in the foundations of the calculus and in number theory, in particular for Fermat's Last Theorem.
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- Pierre de Fermat Excerpt from "A Short Account of the History of Mathematics" (4th edition, 1908) by W. W. Rouse Ball.
- Pierre de Fermat Biography of the mathematician with links to relevant terms and related links. From the MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive.
- Fermat, Pierre de Biography of the mathematician from Eric Weisstein's World of Scientific Biography.
- Fermat's Last Theorem Explains the theorem and traces its history. From the MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive.