1. Fermat - Noun
2. Fermat - Proper noun
French mathematician who founded number theory; contributed (with Pascal) to the theory of probability (1601-1665)
Source: WordNetI don't believe Fermat had a proof. I think he fooled himself into thinking he had a proof. Andrew Wiles
Fermat said he had a proof. Andrew Wiles
Fermat was my childhood passion. Andrew Wiles
By the time I was a student in high school I was reading the classic Men of Mathematics by E. T. Bell and I remember succeeding in proving the classic Fermat theorem about an integer multiplied by itself p times where p is a prime. John Forbes Nash
Young children simply aren't interested in Fermat. They just want to hear a story and they're not going to let you do anything else. Andrew Wiles
Fermat couldn't possibly have had this proof. Andrew Wiles