Around 1630, Pierre de Fermat scribbled his famous note in the margin of a book stating what is now known as “Fermat’s Last Theorem.” “I have discovered a truly remarkable proof which this ...

Pierre de Fermat left behind a truly tantalizing hint of a proof when he died—one that mathematicians struggled to complete for centuries. François de Poilly, wikimedia commons The story is ...

The theorem is called Pierre de Fermat's last because, of his many conjectures, it was the last and longest to be unverified. He also wrote that he didn't have space in the margin to show the proof.

Pierre de Fermat's 410th birthday is celebrated in a Google doodle today. Here are ten things you need to know about the French mathematician. 7. Fermat had five children. The eldest, Clément ...

In the 17th century the French mathematician Pierre de Fermat set a challenge for future generations of mathematicians—prove that there are no whole number solutions for the following closely ...

Otherwise known as “Fermat’s Last Theorem,” this equation was first posed by French mathematician Pierre de Fermat in 1637, and had stumped the world’s brightest minds for more than 300 years.

Wiles was bestowed this year’s $700,000 Abel Prize for his proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem. Formulated by French mathematician Pierre de Fermat in 1637, it had long been the math world’s most ...

Vaughn Jr., heir to a fortune generated by the oil gushers of East Texas; English mathematician Sir Andrew Wiles; and seventeenth-century French amateur mathematician Pierre de Fermat. WHAT ...

Pierre de Fermat's 410th birthday is celebrated in a Google doodle today. Here are ten things you need to know about the French mathematician. 1. Born in 1601 in Beaumont-de-Lomagne, France ...

Otherwise known as “Fermat’s Last Theorem,” this equation was first posed by French mathematician Pierre de Fermat in 1637, and had stumped the world’s brightest minds for more than 300 years.