Mathematical Career of Pierre de Fermat, 1601-1665
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Adequality
Algebra
Analytic proof
Arithmetic
Arithmetic progression
Arithmetica
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Axiom
Blaise Pascal
Cartesian coordinate system
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Conchoid (mathematics)
Coprime integers
Cube (algebra)
Diagram (category theory)
Diophantine equation
Diophantus
Divisibility rule
Divisor
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Equation
Fermat number
Fermat point
Fermat's Last Theorem
Fermat's theorem
Fundamental theorem
Geometry
Hypotenuse
Inequality (mathematics)
Integer
Linear algebra
Magic square
Mathematical analysis
Mathematical induction
Mathematical problem
Mathematician
Mathematics
Maxima and minima
Mersenne prime
Number theory
Ordinate
Parabola
Parity (mathematics)
Pascal's theorem
Pascal's triangle
Pell's equation
Pentagonal number
Pierre de Fermat
Prime factor
Prime number
Probability theory
Proof by infinite descent
Proportionality (mathematics)
Quadratic residue
Rectangle
Result
Right triangle
Scientific notation
Scripta Mathematica
Series (mathematics)
Series expansion
Sieve of Eratosthenes
Sign (mathematics)
Simon Stevin
Simultaneous equations
Square (algebra)
Squaring the circle
Summation
Theorem
Theory of equations
Thomas Kuhn
Two New Sciences
Variable (mathematics)
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- ISBN 9780691036663
- Weight: 652g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 06 Nov 1994
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Hailed as one of the greatest mathematical results of the twentieth century, the recent proof of Fermat's Last Theorem by Andrew Wiles brought to public attention the enigmatic problem-solver Pierre de Fermat, who centuries ago stated his famous conjecture in a margin of a book, writing that he did not have enough room to show his "truly marvelous demonstration." Along with formulating this proposition--xn+yn=zn has no rational solution for n > 2--Fermat, an inventor of analytic geometry, also laid the foundations of differential and integral calculus, established, together with Pascal, the conceptual guidelines of the theory of probability, and created modern number theory. In one of the first full-length investigations of Fermat's life and work, Michael Sean Mahoney provides rare insight into the mathematical genius of a hobbyist who never sought to publish his work, yet who ranked with his contemporaries Pascal and Descartes in shaping the course of modern mathematics.
Michael Sean Mahoney is Professor of History at Princeton University.
