Fermat

Speech parts

1. Fermat - Noun

2. Fermat - Proper noun

Meaning

French mathematician who founded number theory; contributed (with Pascal) to the theory of probability (1601-1665)

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

Pierre de Fermat

Phrases with the word

Fermat-Torricelli point Fermat point Fermat's spiral Fermat witness Fermat cubic Fermat liar

Examples

I 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

Close letter words and terms

Ferman Fermanagh Fermanian Fermat cubic Fermat curve Fermat equation