solve a range of optical problems. Rejecting Descartes' solution, Pierre de Fermat arrived at the same solution based solely on his principle of least time...

equation, elementary particles, the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens, Fermat's Last Theorem, the AIDS epidemic, global warming, moissanite, Project Jennifer...

that Chortasmenos wasn't cursing Diophantus because of the same passage next to which Fermat wrote his theorem (II.8), but because of the far more difficult...

of two The Fermat primes, prime numbers that are one plus a power of two The products of powers of two and any number of distinct Fermat primes. Thus...

Petiver, English naturalist and apothecary (died 1718) January 12 – Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician (born 1607) November 18 – Blaise Francois Pagan, French...

as the reason for the failure of the standard method of attack on the Fermat problem (see regular prime). Somewhat later again Richard Dedekind formulated...

and discovered a 2000-digit prime number in 1999 and a record composite Fermat number in 2003. John Lighton Synge made progress in different fields of...

invention of photography, the grant for the publication of the works of Fermat and Laplace, the acquisition of the museum of Cluny, the development of...

his Fields Medal-winning work) proved Serre's conjecture. The proof of Fermat's Last Theorem proceeds by first reinterpreting elliptic curves and modular...

stated the principle of least time for refraction which would later become Fermat's principle. He made major contributions to catoptrics and dioptrics by studying...