fermat in English

noun

family name; Pierre de Fermat (1601-1665) French mathematician, co-founder of number theory and probability theory (with Pascal)

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1. He studied Pell's equation and Fermat , perfect , and amicable numbers .

2. The algorithm of distinguishing prime number is improved on the basis of Eratosthenes' sieve method and Fermat' s minor theorem.

3. However, it should be noted that Pascal and Fermat, though doing important early work in probability theory, did not develop the field very far.

4. In additive number theory, the Fermat polygonal number theorem states that every positive integer is a sum of at most n n-gonal numbers.

5. The solution of this conjecture by Andrew Wiles provided an understanding of this structure uncomparably deeper than the original message carried by the Fermat Theorem.

6. It means an angle is Constructible if and only if its order is either a power of two, or a power of two times a set of Fermat primes

7. This theorem was first Conjectured by Pierre de Fermat in 1637 in the margin of a copy of Arithmetica, where he claimed that he had a proof that was too large to fit in the margin

8. ‘Fermat preferred the Algebraic techniques that he used to such devastating effect in number theory.’ ‘His work in Algebraic number theory led him to study the quaternions and generalisations such as Clifford algebras.’ ‘This gave powerful results such as a purely Algebraic proof of the Riemann Roch theorem.’