In 1637, French mathematician Pierre de Fermat jotted a cryptic conjecture in the margins of a textbook. On Fermat's birthday Google celebrates Fermat's Last Theorem, which managed to drive ...

Pierre de Fermat has his name on one of the most famous theorems in mathematics. For over 300 years, Fermat’s Last Theorem stood as the ultimate symbol of unachievable mathematical greatness. In the ...

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 ...

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 ...

When you scroll over Google's latest Doodle honoring 17th century mathematician Pierre de Fermat there is a message that states "I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this theorem, which this ...

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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.

Fermat’s Last Tango If Stephen Sondheim can write a musical about Georges Seurat's pointillism, why shouldn't Joshua Rosenblum and Joanne Sydney Lessner write one about Pierre de Fermat's last ...

Pierre de Fermat, was born on 17 August 1601, 410 years ago.A lawyer at the Parlement of Toulouse and a gifted amateur mathematician, he made breakthroughs in several fields of calculus ...

The Fermat Prize, named for Pierre de Fermat, a legendary 17th-century mathematician renowned for his research into the theory of numbers, was created in 1987. The award was designed to mark important ...