Pierre de Fermat
Noun
Meaning
French mathematician who founded number theory; contributed (with Pascal) to the theory of probability (1601-1665)
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Aside from the elementary work by Cardano, the doctrine of probabilities dates to the correspondence of Pierre de Fermat and Blaise Pascal (1654).
Gauss never answered.sfn Her work on Fermat's Last Theorem Pierre de Fermat Fermat's Last Theorem can be divided into two cases.
In 1640 Pierre de Fermat stated (without proof) Fermat's little theorem (later proved by Leibniz and Euler ).