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21. Pierre De Fermat
held he became entitled to change his name from pierre Fermat to pierre de Fermat hemoved to Toulouse but there he gained a new mathematical friend in carcavi.
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Pierre de Fermat
Pierre de Fermat was born in Toulouse in 1601 and died in 1665 at the age of 64. Fermats Father was a rich man and so in all probability Fermat was given a good education and attended the university of Toulouse. Many people know of Fermat as a number theorist and mathematician and are therefore surprised to find out that he was actually a lawyer and only pondered such theories in his spare time. Also surprising is the fact that Fermat only ever published one paper in his life, which was an anonymous article as an appendix to a colleague's book.
Pierre Fermat's father was a wealthy leather merchant and second consul of Beaumont- de- Lomagne. Pierre had a brother and two sisters and was almost certainly brought up in the town of his birth. Although there is little evidence concerning his school education it must have been at the local Franciscan monastery. He attended the University of Toulouse before moving to Bordeaux in the second half of the 1620s. In Bordeaux he began his first serious mathematical researches and in 1629 he gave a copy of his restoration of Apollonius's Plane loci to one of the mathematicians there. Certainly in Bordeaux he was in contact with Beaugrand and during this time he produced important work on maxima and minima which he gave to Etienne d'Espagnet who clearly shared mathematical interests with Fermat. From Bordeaux Fermat went to Orléans where he studied law at the University. He received a degree in civil law and he purchased the offices of councillor at the parliament in Toulouse. So by 1631 Fermat was a lawyer and government official in Toulouse and because of the office he now held he became entitled to change his name from Pierre Fermat to Pierre de Fermat.

22. Biographie Von Pierre De Fermat
Translate this page er geadelt und änderte seinen Namen von pierre Fermat in pierre de Fermat er nachToulouse gezogen war, machte aber dort auch die Bekanntschaft mit carcavi.
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Pierre de Fermat (1601- 1663)

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24. PIERRE DE FERMAT: THE FAMOUS MATHEMATICIAN
pierre worked in a nearby town called Castres. Fermat had a friendship withBeaugrand, after he moved to Toulouse he met someone new carcavi.
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Pierre de Fermat (pronounced fermah), was born in Beaumont-de-Lomagne which is in south France. He was born on August 17, 1601.He had one brother and two sisters. He went to a Franciscan Monastery, he also was educated at home. He attended the University of Toulouse before moving to Bordeaux in the second half of the 1620's. He was a excellent scholar, and amused himself by conjecturally restoring the work of Apollnius on plane loci. He got a degree in civil law , he was a professional. At Toulouse he became a councillor of parliament. His hobby was math, he was a mathematician.A lot of his work was being communicated in letters to friends containing results without evidence. He studied maximum and minimum values of functions in advance of the differential calculus. He is best known for his work in number theory. There was proof of many of his discoveries, they were first published by Leonard Euler a hundred years later. His last theorom was his most famous unsettled problem in mathematics: it states

25. Fermat, Pierre De
now held entitled him to change his name from pierre Fermat to pierre de Fermat hemoved to Toulouse but there he gained a new mathematical friend in carcavi.
http://www.math.rutgers.edu/courses/436/436-s00/Papers2000/pellegrino.html
Pierre de Fermat Dana Pellegrino, History of Mathematics Research Paper, Spring 2000 Pierre de Fermat was one of the most brilliant and productive mathematicians of his time, making many contributions to the differential and integral calculus, number theory, optics, and analytic geometry, as well as initiating the development of probability theory in correspondence with Pascal. In this paper, we shall examine some of Fermat's contributions to the world of mathematics, paying specific attention to his work in number theory and in optics. Pierre de Fermat was born on August 17, 1601 in Beaumont-de-Lomagne, France, and died on January 12, 1665 in Castres. He was the son of a prosperous leather merchant, and became a lawyer and magistrate (Singh, page 35). While not much is known of this French mathematician's early life and education, it is known that Fermat attended the University of Toulouse before moving to Bordeaux in the second half of the 1620s. He was educated at home and began his first serious mathematical researches in Bordeaux. He was also in contact with Beaugrand, and it was at this time that Fermat produced important work on maxima and minima (World Book). He communicated this work to Etienne d'Espagnet, who shared his mathematical interests. From Bordeaux Fermat went to Orléans, where he studied law at the University. He received a degree in civil law and at the age of thirty was inducted as the "commissioner of requests." By 1631, Fermat was a lawyer and government official in Toulouse, and was promoted to a king's councillorship in the parliament of Toulouse in 1648. "Fermat's offices made him a member of that social class also and entitled him to add the de' to his name, which he did from 1631 on" (Mahoney, page 16). The office he now held entitled him to change his name from Pierre Fermat to Pierre de Fermat, as "de" is the mark of nobility in France.

26. Pierre De Fermat
pierre de Fermat was born on August 17, 1960, in Beaumontde-Lomagne, a small townnear He did however write a letter to his friend and mathematician, carcavi.
http://www.math.rutgers.edu/courses/436/436-s99/Papers1999/chellani.html
PIERRE DE FERMAT
Yogita Chellani
Term Paper, History of Mathematics, Rutgers
The French mathematician Pierre de Fermat(1601-1665) was possibly the most productive mathematician of his era, making many contributions, some of which were to calculus, number theory, and the law of refraction. We will survey those contributions here, paying particular attention to his work in number theory. While relatively little is known of Fermat's early education, it is known that he was of Basque origin and received his primary and secondary education at the monastery of Grandsl ve, run by the Cordeliers (Franciscans), in Beaumont-de-Lomagne. For his advanced studies he first attended the University of Toulouse before moving to Bordeaux in the second half of the 1620's. In Bordeaux (1629) Fermat began his first serious mathematical researches, where he gave a copy of his restoration of Appollonius's Plane Loci to one of the mathematicians there. In Bordeaux he contacted Beaugrand and during this time he produced work on maxima and minima. He gave his work to Etienne de'Espagnet, who shared mathematical interests with Fermat.
    "Fermat's offices made him a member of that social class also and entitled him to add the "de" to his name, which he did from 1631 on." (Mahoney, p.16)

27. Célébrités Du Rhône
pierre de carcavi; Joseph Chinard; Charles-pierreClaret de Fleurieu; Guillaume Coustou; Nicolas Coustou;
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Le XXe Siècle.

28. Célébrités Du Rhône
Brisson; pierre de carcavi; Gérard desargues; Camille Jordan; Etienne de La Roche;
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29. OPE-MAT - Historique
Translate this page Sydney Conon of Samos Caramuel, Juan Chasles, Michel Coolidge, Julian Carathéodory,C Châtelet, Gabrielle du Cooper, Jacob carcavi, pierre de Chebotaryov
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Abel , Niels Akhiezer , Naum Anthemius of Tralles Abraham bar Hiyya al'Battani , Abu Allah Antiphon the Sophist Abraham, Max al'Biruni , Abu Arrayhan Apollonius of Perga Abu Kamil Shuja al'Haitam , Abu Ali Appell , Paul Abu'l-Wafa al'Buzjani al'Kashi , Ghiyath Arago , Francois Ackermann , Wilhelm al'Khwarizmi , Abu Arbogast , Louis Adams , John Couch Albert of Saxony Arbuthnot , John Adelard of Bath Albert , Abraham Archimedes of Syracuse Adler , August Alberti , Leone Battista Archytas of Tarentum Adrain , Robert Albertus Magnus, Saint Argand , Jean Aepinus , Franz Alcuin of York Aristaeus the Elder Agnesi , Maria Alekandrov , Pavel Aristarchus of Samos Ahmed ibn Yusuf Alexander , James Aristotle Ahmes Arnauld , Antoine Aida Yasuaki Amsler , Jacob Aronhold , Siegfried Aiken , Howard Anaxagoras of Clazomenae Artin , Emil Airy , George Anderson , Oskar Aryabhata the Elder Aitken , Alexander Angeli , Stefano degli Atwood , George Ajima , Chokuyen Anstice , Robert Richard Avicenna , Abu Ali
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Babbage , Charles Betti , Enrico Bossut , Charles Bachet Beurling , Arne Bouguer , Pierre Bachmann , Paul Boulliau , Ismael Bacon , Roger Bhaskara Bouquet , Jean Backus , John Bianchi , Luigi Bour , Edmond Baer , Reinhold Bieberbach , Ludwig Bourgainville , Louis Baire Billy , Jacques de Boutroux , Pierre Baker , Henry Binet , Jacques Bowditch , Nathaniel Ball , W W Rouse Biot , Jean-Baptiste Bowen , Rufus Balmer , Johann Birkhoff , George Boyle , Robert Banach , Stefan Bjerknes, Carl

30. Droit Et Mathématiques, Un Exemple Local.
Translate this page à ce que l'on dit habituellement avaient des contacts avec des mathématiciensà Toulouse, son collègue au parlement pierre de carcavi s'intéressait
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31. Biography-center - Letter D
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32. Full Alphabetical Index
61) Cantelli, Francesco (104*) Cantor, Georg (3100*) Cantor, Moritz (498*) Caramuel,Juan (227) Carathéodory, Constantin (267*) carcavi, pierre de (439
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Abbe , Ernst (602*)
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Abraham bar Hiyya (641)
Abraham, Max
Abu Kamil Shuja (1012)
Abu Jafar
Abu'l-Wafa al-Buzjani (1115)
Ackermann , Wilhelm (205)
Adams, John Couch
Adams, J Frank
Adelard of Bath (1008) Adler , August (114) Adrain , Robert (79*) Adrianus , Romanus (419) Aepinus , Franz (124) Agnesi , Maria (2018*) Ahlfors , Lars (725*) Ahmed ibn Yusuf (660) Ahmes Aida Yasuaki (696) Aiken , Howard (665*) Airy , George (313*) Aitken , Alec (825*) Ajima , Naonobu (144) Akhiezer , Naum Il'ich (248*) al-Baghdadi , Abu (947) al-Banna , al-Marrakushi (861) al-Battani , Abu Allah (1333*) al-Biruni , Abu Arrayhan (3002*) al-Farisi , Kamal (1102) al-Haitam , Abu Ali (2490*) al-Hasib Abu Kamil (1012) al-Haytham , Abu Ali (2490*) al-Jawhari , al-Abbas (627) al-Jayyani , Abu (892) al-Karaji , Abu (1789) al-Karkhi al-Kashi , Ghiyath (1725*) al-Khazin , Abu (1148) al-Khalili , Shams (677) al-Khayyami , Omar (2140*) al-Khwarizmi , Abu (2847*) al-Khujandi , Abu (713) al-Kindi , Abu (1151) al-Kuhi , Abu (1146) al-Maghribi , Muhyi (602) al-Mahani , Abu (507) al-Marrakushi , ibn al-Banna (12)

33. Full Chronological Index
(16001684) carcavi (1600-1667 Budan de BL (1765-1832) Osipovsky, (1765-1842) Ivory(1765-1843) Lacroix (1765-1822) Ruffini (1765-1836) Girard, pierre (1765-1825
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(580 BC - 520 BC) Pythagoras
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34. Philosophers : Pierre De Fermat
pierre Fermat's father was a wealthy leather merchant and second consul of Beaumont movedto Toulouse but there he gained a new mathematical friend in carcavi.
http://www.trincoll.edu/depts/phil/philo/phils/fermat.html
Pierre de Fermat
French Mathematician
8-17-1601 to 12-12-1665
Pierre Fermat's father was a wealthy leather merchant and second consul of Beaumont- de- Lomagne. He was probably educated in his early years at the local Franciscan monastery. He attended the University of Toulouse before moving to Bordeau in the second half of the 1620s. In Bordeau he began his first serious mathematical researches and in 1629 he had completed his restoration of Apollonius's "Plane Loci." In Bordeau he was in contact with Beaugrand and produced important work on maxima and minima. From Bordeau Fermat went to Orléans where he studied law at the University. He received a degree in civil law and he purchased the offices of councillor at the parliament in Toulouse. Fermat's meteoric rise through the government is evidenced by his multiple appointments between 1631 and 1653. News of his death due to the plague of the 1650s was exaggerated: I informed you earlier of the death of Fermat. He is alive, and we no longer fear for his health, even though we had counted him among the dead a short time ago. The following report, made to Colbert the leading figure in France at the time, has a ring of truth:-

35. Fermat 'in Biyografisi
sahip oldugu bu isinden dolayi, ona pierre Fermat olan adini pierre de Fermat buradayeni bir matematik arkadasi daha kazanmistir, o da carcavi 'dir.
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36. Pierre De Fermat
work. Most of his theories and formulations were recovered from hiscorrespondence with pierre de carcavi and Father Mersenne. Upon
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072398485/student_view0/cd/tools/timeline
    Fermat received a Bachelor of Civil Laws from the University of Law at Orleans in 1631. Fermat considered mathematics to be a hobby, never publishing his work. Most of his theories and formulations were recovered from his correspondence with Pierre de Carcavi and Father Mersenne. Upon his death his son Samuel oversaw the publications of Fermats work in Observations on Diophantus , and Mathematical Works Pierre de Fermat explored such mathematical areas as analytical geometry, pre-evolved Calculus, and infinite descent. However his work with Number Theory is what he is best known for. A few of his well known theorems include
    Every non-negative integer can be represented as the sum of four or fewer squares A prime of the form 4n + 1 can be represented as the sum of two squares The equation Nx + 1 = y has infinitely many integer solutions if N is not a square Fermat was in the habit of presenting his theorems as fact, letting others perform the task of presenting the proofs and verifications of his work. Perhaps his most infamous work is what is commonly known as Fermat's Last Theorem, named such as it was the last of his theorems to be proven. This theorem states that x n + y n = z n has no non-zero integer solutions for x, y and z when n > 2. To further add to the mystery, Fermat's last words on this were found in the margin of a popular mathematics book, simply stating that he had found a "remarkable proof" but that the margin was too small in which to explain. In 1995, over 300 years later, this theorem was finally proven by the British mathematician, Andrew Wiles.

37. Pierre De Fermat
pierre de Fermat. störfum vann Fermat að stærðfræðirannsóknum og kynnti ýmsarniðurstöður þeirra fyrir stærðfræðisinnuðum vini sínum carcavi.
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Pierre de Fermat
Fæddur: 17. ágúst 1601 í Beaumont-de-Lomagne í Frakklandi
Dáinn: 12. janúar 1665 í Castres í Frakklandi
Æviágrip: Fermat var sonur efnaðs leðurkaupmanns og fékk fyrstu menntun sína í heimahúsum. Hann átti einn bróður og tvær systur. Á 3. tug 17. aldar flutti Fermat til Bordeaux, en hafði áður stundað nám við háskólann í Toulouse. Hann hóf fyrstu alvarlegu rannsóknir sínar í stærðfræði í Bordeaux sem leiddu m.a. til athyglisverðra niðurstaðna varðandi útgildi falla. Frá Bordeaux flutti Fermat til Orléans og stundaði þar nám í lögfræði við háskólann. Hann lauk embættisprófi í lögfræði og gerðist lögmaður og opinber embættismaður við þingið í Toulouse. Hann bjó í Toulouse upp frá því, en starfaði jafnframt í heimabæ sínum, Beaumont-de-Lomagne og nágrannabænum Castres. Hann hlaut mikinn embættisframa og árið 1652 fékk hann skipun í æðsta embætti við glæpadómstól þingsins. Árin 1643 - 1654 var Fermat ekki í sambandi við stærðfræðisamfélagið í París, aðallega vegna annarrar vinnu en einnig vegna stríðsátaka í Frakklandi á þessum árum og afleiðinga þeirra í Toulouse. En á þessu tímabili vann Fermat þó að talnafræði, og er hann einmitt best þekktur vegna verka sinna innan þess sviðs stærðfræðinnar. Frægastur er hann að sjálfsögðu fyrir svokallaða Síðustu kenningu Fermats, en hún segir, að jafnan x n + y n = z n hafi enga heiltölulausn frábrugðna núlli fyrir x, y og z ef heila talan n er stærri en 2. Fermat ritaði í spássíu á þýðingu Bachet's á Arithmetica eftir Diophantus, að hann hefði fundið dásamlega sönnun á reglunni, en að spássían dygði ekki fyrir hana. Þessi athugasemd varð fyrst kunn þegar sonur Fermats, Samúel, prentaði útgáfu Bachet's með athugasemdum föður hans árið 1670. Í dag er talið að "sönnun" Fermats hafi ekki verið rétt. En kenning hans var hins vegar sönnuð endanlega í nóvember árið 1994 af breska stærðfræðingnum Andrew Wiles. Misheppnaðar tilraunir til sönnunar kenningarinnar yfir 300 ára tímabil leiddu m.a. til uppgötvunar víxlinnar baugakenningar auk margvíslegra annarra stærðfræðilegra uppgötvana.

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39. BLAISE PASCAL
descartes wrote to carcavi in June 1647 about Pascal's experiments saying Six yearslater, in conjunction with the French mathematician pierre de Fermat, Pascal
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Home Background Blaise Pascal Probability Theory Pascal's Triangle Probability Theory Introduction Application of Probability Theory Probability Quotes Glossary ... Gambling on God Pascal's wager 3rd Argument Conclusion Alternative Formulation Decision Theory ... Rationality Objections Many Gods Objection Intellectualist Objection Moral Objection Inappropriate Argument ... Link Homework Problemset 1 Problemset 2 Problemset 2(HTML) Problemset 3 ... Comment Joyce Lam Nga Ching BLAISE PASCAL (1623-1662) Blaise Pascal Blaise Pascal is known as one of the co-founders of present day probability theory. He is known by many titles such as geometer, philosopher, mathematician, probabilist, physicist, and inventor. At the age of 14 Blaise Pascal started to accompany his father to Mersenne's meetings. Mersenne belonged to the religious order of the Minims, and his cell in Paris was a frequent meeting place for Gassendi, Roberval, Carcavi, Auzout, Mydorge, Mylon, Desargues and others. Soon, certainly by the time he was 15, Blaise came to admire the work of Desargues. At the age of sixteen, Pascal presented a single piece of paper to one of Mersenne's meetings in June 1639. It contained a number of projective geometry theorems, including Pascal's mystic hexagon.

40. Situated At 79, Rue Du Temple (rue Sainte-Avoye), The Hôtel De
In addition to Gassendi and Montmor, the group likely included Ismaël Boulliau(16051694), Charles du Bosc (d. 1659), pierre carcavi (c.1603-1684), Claude
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scientific revolution S W C B W B ut personal bickering and doctrinal disputes soon disrupted the meetings. In December 1658 a legendary clash occurred between Montmor and Roberval, ostensibly over a doctrine of Descartes. The dispute stymied activity for eight months. If the problem was a tendency to speechify, the solution was to emphasize experiment. After the summer of 1659, meetings resumed more or less weekly until June 1664, when Huygens pronounced the academy had 'ended forever' ( Huygens to Moray, 12 June 1664 D A lthough little is known of specific discussion topics, a general picture has emerged. As we have seen, there was concern to avoid the 'vain exercise of the mind on useless subtleties; rather, one should always propose the clearest knowledge of the works of God and the advancement of the conveniences of life, in the arts and sciences that best serve to establish them.' Contemporary correspondence shows that discourses were read and discussed, and that the tenor of meetings was often shrill. A ); Huygens' work with the air pump; Pierre Guisony's work on vegetation, and Pecquet's dissections. Specific discussion topics include Chapelain's announcement of Huygens' discoveries (pendulum clock; Saturn's moon Titan; Saturn's Rings), and formal exchanges on such topics as the science of motion, rarefaction and condensation, and the limits of natural knowledge and sources of error. Foreign correspondence was read and discussed at the close of each session.

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