Who was Fermat de Pierre?
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Pierre de Fermat (August 17, 1601 – January 12, 1665) was a French lawyer at the Parlement of Toulouse, southwestern France, and a mathematician who is given credit for the development of modern calculus. With his insightful theorems Fermat created the modern theory of numbers. The depth of his work can be gauged by the fact that many of his results were not proved for over a century after his death, and one of them, the Last Theorem, took more than three centuries to prove.\n\nBy the time he was 30, Pierre was a civil servant whose job was to act as a link between petitioners from Toulouse to the King of France and an enforcer of royal decrees from the King to the local people. Evidence suggests he was considerate and merciful in his duties.\n\nSince he was also required to act as an appeal judge in important local cases, he did everything he could to be impartial. To avoid socializing with those who might one day appear before him in court, he became involved in mathematics and spent as much free time as he could in its study. He was so skilled in the subject that he could be called a professional amateur.\n\nHe was mostly isolated from other mathematicians, though he wrote regularly to two English mathematicians, Digby and Wallis. He also corresponded with French mathematician, Father Mersenne who was trying to increase discussion and the exchange of ideas among French mathematicians. One was Blaise Pascal who, with Fermat, established a new branch of math - probability theory.\n\nBesides probability theory, Fermat also helped lay the foundations for calculus, an area of math that calculates the rate of change of one quantity in relation to another, for example velocity and acceleration. In particular, he is the precursor of differential calculus with his method of finding the greatest and the smallest ordinates of curved lines, analogous to that of the then unknown differential calculus.\n\nFermat himself was secretive and, since he rarely wrote complete proofs or explanations of how he got his answers, was mischievously frustrating for others to understand. He loved to announce in letters that he had just solved a problem in math but then refused to disclose its solution, leaving it for others to figure out.\n\nFermat's passion in math was in yet another branch - number theory, the relationship among numbers. While he was studying an ancient number puzzle book, he came up with a puzzle of his own that has been called Fermat's Enigma. Mathematicians worked for over three centuries to find its answer, but no one succeeded until 1994. Andrew Wiles, an English mathematician, created a proof and published it 330 years after Fermat's death in 1665.\n\nAlthough he carefully studied and drew inspiration from Diophantus, Fermat inaugurated a different tradition. Diophantus was content to find a single solution to his equations, even if it was a fraction. Fermat was only interested in integer solutions to his diophantine equations and he looked for all solutions of the equation. He also proved that certain equations had no solution, an activity which baffled his contemporaries.\n\nHe studied Pell's equation and Fermat, perfect, and amicable numbers. It was while researching perfect numbers that he created Fermat's theorem.\n\nHe created the principle of infinite descent and Fermat's factorization method.\n\nHe created the two-square theorem, and the polygonal number theorem, which states that each number is a sum of 3 triangular numbers, 4 square numbers, 5 pentagonal numbers, ...\n\nHe was the first to evaluate the integral of general power functions. Using an ingenious trick, he was able to reduce this evaluation to summing geometric series. The formula that resulted was a key hint to Newton and Leibniz when they independently developed the fundamental theorems of calculus.\n\nAlthough Fermat claimed to be able to prove all his arithmetical results, few of his proofs (if he had them) have survived. And c
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Before slide rules and adding machines dominated accounting. Until Blaise Pascal invented the digital calculator to help his father with tax collecting.
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I think you mean he discovered that the angles in a triangle add up to the sum of two right angles (180 degrees). However, he is best known for the Pythagorean Theorem, which says that for all right triangles the sum of the squares of the lengths of the two legs is equal to the square of the length of the hypotenuse. Many mathematicians and others, including President Garfield, have come up with original proofs for this theorem. Here's a couple links, one to information about the famous theorem and another to biographical information on Pythagoras.
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ARYABHATA [Aryabhata] , c.476-550, Hindu mathematician and astronomer. He is one of the first known to have used algebra; his writings include rules of arithmetic and of plane and spherical trigonometry, and solutions of quadratic equationsr.
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There are several good articles relating to this genius. One such article can be found at \nwww.rense.com/health/rife.htm
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Anne Finche Conway (1631-1678) \nAntoine Arnauld (1612-1694) \nBartoleme de las Casas (1484-1566) \nBenedict Spinoza (1632-1677) \nBlaise Pascal (1623-1662) \nCatherine Trotter Cockburne (1679-1749) \nDamaris Cudworth Masham (1659-1708) \nDavid Hume (1711-1776) \nEmmanuel Kant (1724-1804) \nFrancis Bacon (1561-1626) \nFrancisco de Vitoria (1492/93-1546) \nFrancois-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694-1778) \nG.W. Leibniz (1646-1716) \nGeorge Berkeley (1685-1753) \nHugo Grotius (1583-1645) \nJean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) \nJohn Locke (1632-1704) \nMargaret Lucas Cavendish (1623-1673) \nMary Astell (1666-1731) \nMary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)\nMichele de Montaigne (1533-1592) \nNicolas Malebranche (1638-1715) \nNicolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) \nPierre Bayle (1637-1706) \nPierre Gassendi (1592-1655) \nRene Descartes (1595-1650) \nSir Thomas More (1478-1535) \nSor Juana Ines de la Cruz (1648-1695)\nThomas Hobbes (1588-1679)
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Actually, this is his last theorem. Fermat's last theorem states that for the equation xn + yn = zn (n is a superscript) there are no integers x, y, z that satisfy the equation if n is an integer greater than 2
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check this site\n\nhttp://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Fermat.html
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Martin Van Buren\nhttp://americanhistory.about.com/library/fastfacts/blffpres8.htm
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Peter Drucker\n\nhttp://www.peter-drucker.com/about.html
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Rudolph Virchow?\n\nhttp://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Virchow.html\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Virchow
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well i dont know how much there would be in the line of proofs steming from Fermats Last Theorem.\n\nbut i can tell you that Andrew Wiles (the man who proved fermats last theorem) developed a fair amount of new mathematics in the process of the proof, it is speculated that the new math he developed will be studied for hundreds of years.  his new math may lead to new lines of thinkings and ways to do proofs\n\nLook at it this way fermats last theorem was proved using the shimura taniyama conjecture...basically he proved that conjecture and said therefore Fermats Last theorem is true.  But he was able to say that anythign that happened in one world happened in another.  the math is way above my head...for now.\n\nSo yes, a new proof would be important.  It has been said that the answer to a question isnt nearly as imporant as the means to get there.  Implying the new developments made by proving something stem to new ideas and proofs...such as the new math used in the proof of Fermats Last Theorem
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tat's easy man:\nFranz Beckenbauer
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Agostine Monk and Abbot, Gregor Mendel, did more to advance the science of change and evolution with his plant studies.  He's considered the Father of Genetics.  He actually made "intellgent design" in plants possible.\n\nThen there's Father Georges-Henri Lemaître a Roman Catholic priest, honorary prelate, professor of physics and astronomer.  He gave us the Big Bang theory.\n\nIsn't it funny how the actually scientific theories are conjured up by Religious Priests.
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Fermat, I think.  He wrote he had found a proof for this, but put a note in the margin that there wasn't enough room there for the proof.  And no-one could find the proof anywhere else in his notes and he died.  A fellow named Andrew Wiles worked for a long time to find the proof, and after some ill-fated public announcements I think the proof was finally completed.\n\nI hope this helps.
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Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman who developed many devices which greatly influenced life in the 20th century. Dubbed "The Wizard of Menlo Park" by a newspaper reporter, he was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production to the process of invention, and can therefore be credited with the creation of the first industrial research laboratory. Some of the inventions credited to him were not completely original, but alterations of earlier patents (most famously the light bulb), or were actually the work of his numerous employees. Nevertheless, Edison is considered one of the most prolific inventors in history, holding 1,093 U.S. patents in his name, as well as many patents in the United Kingdom, France, and Germany.
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Oliver Lodge\n\nPatented Invention: http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bl_spark_plugs.htm\n\nAlso Edmund Berger (but he didn't patent)