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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Born in France in 1601 (probably -- various biographies place his year of birth anywhere from 1590 to 1608), Fermat studied at the University of Toulouse before earning a law degree from the ...

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.

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 ...

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.