GRADD 3D Model of Statue of mathematician/lawyer Pierre de Fermat by Theophile Barrau in the Capitole, Toulouse, France ** Who is Pierre Fermat ?** The French mathematician Pierre de Fermat (Beaumont de Lomagne 1601- Castres 1665) was possibly the most productive mathematician of his era. He is considered to be one of the ‘fathers’ of analytic geometry, along with René Descartes. He is also considered, along with Blaise Pascal, to be one of the founders of probability theory. Fermat’s most important work was done in the development of modern number theory which was one of his favorite areas in Maths. He is best remembered for his number theory, in particular for “Fermat’s Last Theorem”. This theorem states that: x^n + y^n = z^n has no non-zero integer solutions for x, y and z when n is greater than 2. Andrew Wiles, a British-American research mathematician at Priceton University, finally proved Fermat’s Last Therorem in 1994.
Xn + Yn = Zn est impossible en nombre entiers pour tout n>2.
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