Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Mathematicians - Pierre de Fermat

Mathematician - Pierre de Fermat

Pierre de Fermat was one of those classically educated geniuses, who, like Ampère, never went to college. Pierre de Fermat was a French lawyer at the Parlement of Toulouse, France, and an amateur mathematician. The French mathematician Pierre de Fermat played an important part in the foundation and development of analytic geometry. Pierre de Fermat was born in southwestern France in 1601. His father was a wealthy leather merchant.

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