Marco J, Brayden S,Paolo F
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DATE OF DEATH January 12, 1665
PROFESSIONS French lawyer, mathematician
EDUCATION University of Orléans
bachelor in civil law in 1626
WORK EXPERIENCE
He studied at the Franciscan Monastery as a child, and later attended the University of Toulouse. Later, Fermat studied and received his degree in Civil Law from the University of Orleans.
He made conjectures concerning the work of Galileo and developed a method of finding the quadrature of curves.
In 1651, a plague left Fermat ill and isolated in Toulouse. During this time period, he developed a interest in number theory. His dedication to number theory led to the work known today as Fermat’s Last Theorem. It says, \"If n is any whole number and p is any prime, then np - n is divisible by p\".
PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
LAWYER: Government official
MATHEMATICIAN: Enigmatic problem solver
AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS
Founder of modern number theory and probability theory
Did much to establish coordinate geometry
Invented a number of methods for determining maxima and minima for calculus
Discovered Fermat\'s Last Theorem that states the equation x n + y n = z n, where x, y, z, and n are nonzero integers, has no solutions for n that are greater than 2
ACTIVITIES AND INTERESTS
Challenges in math
Making Theories
