Pierre de Fermat : French mathematician
Pierre de Fermat was a French Mathematician who is famous for early developments on infinitesimal calculus.
He is known for his technique of adequality. He also discovered the original method of finding the smallest and the greatest ordinates of curved lines.
He is also famous for many of his other research works on number theory.
He also made great contributions in the field of probability, geometry, optics, and analytics.
He is famous for his Fermat’s Last Theorem in number theory and Fermat’s principle for light propagation.
Pierre de Fermat Life History
List of few significant events of Pierre de Fermat’s life is given below:
He was born on 20 August 1601 in Beaumont-de-Lomagne.
He has done his higher education in Collège de Navarre in Montauban.
He joined the University of Orléans as a bachelor in civil law student in 1623.
He got graduated from the University of Orléans as a bachelor in civil law in 1626.
He started working as a French lawyer after he got graduated.
He started focusing on his mathematical researches in 1629.
He bought the councilor’s office in 1630.
He got married to Louise de Long on 1 June 1631.
He left his soul on 12 January 1665.
Pierre de Fermat Books
Few of the famous books written by Pierre de Fermat are:
Writings on Geometrical Loci
Methodus ad disquirendam maximam et minimam et de tangentibus linearum curvarum
Varia opera mathematica
Ad Locos Planos et Solidos Isagoge
Methodus ad disquirendam maximam et minimam
De tangentibus linearum curvarum
Contributions of Pierre de Fermat in Mathematics
Pierre de Fermat has made a great contribution to the field of Mathematics. He researched on amicable numbers, Pell’s equation, perfect numbers.
His work is now famously known as Fermat numbers. Fermat discovered Fermat’s little theorem while researching perfect numbers. He was the one who has introduced Fermat’s factorization method.
He developed the polygonal number theorem and the two-square theorem.
Below is the list of the contributions he has done in the field of mathematics:
Fermat‘s little theorem
Fermat‘s Last Theorem
Fermat‘s spiral
Fermat‘s principle
Fermat number
Fermat‘s theorem
Fermat‘s method
Fermat‘s factorization method
Fermat–Weber point
Fermat‘s right triangle theorem
Maxima and minima
Fermat polygonal number theorem
Fermat quotient
Fermat cubic
Fermat quintic threefold
Interesting facts about Pierre de Fermat
Few of the Interesting Records and Facts about Pierre de Fermat are:
He made advances in optics.
He knew in six languages (French, Occitan, Latin, classical Greek, Italian and Latin)
Fermat was a fantastic lawyer.
He worked on the integral of general power functions. He was the first french mathematician to do that.
He invented a new factorization method under his name. This method is called the Fermat factorization.
Even though he was a great mathematician he used to draw inspiration from Diophantus(another mathematician)
Awards and Rewards under the name of Pierre de Fermat
Most of the mathematicians and scientists of various countries have valued Pierre de Fermat by facilitating him in different ways.
Here are few of the mathematicians and scientists did for him:
Fermat Prize
The Fermat Prize is awarded once every two years
to those who do the research works in fields of mathematics exclusively on the following topics:
Analytic Geometry.
Foundations of Probability
Statements of variational principles
Number theory.
Mathematicians and Scientists have named this prize as Fermat Prize in the year 1989.
Pierre Fermat medal
This medal is an award to anyone who does excellent inventions in the field of mathematics.
Junior Fermat Prize
This is a mathematical prize, awarded to a student every two years in the first four years of university for some great contribution in mathematics. The amount of the award is 2000 Euros.
