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 ...

So, what are Carmichael numbers? To answer that, we need to go back in time. Pierre de Fermat has his name on one of the most famous theorems in mathematics. For over 300 years, Fermat’s Last Theorem ...

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.

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 ...

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.