1601 - 1665
Pierre de Fermat (French: [pjɛʁ də fɛʁma]; between 31 October and 6 December 1607 – 12 January 1665) was a French mathematician who is given credit for early developments that led to infinitesimal calculus, including his technique of adequality. In particular, he is recognized for his discovery of an original method of finding the greatest and the smallest ordinates of curved lines, which is analogous to that of differential calculus, then unknown, and his research into number theory. He made notable contributions to analytic geometry, probability, and optics. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pierre de Fermat has received more than 1,315,785 page views. His biography is available in 96 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 94 in 2019). Pierre de Fermat is the 13th most popular mathematician (down from 11th in 2019), the 53rd most popular biography from France (up from 57th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular French Mathematician.
Pierre de Fermat is most famous for his work in number theory. He is also known for his work on the Fermat's Last Theorem, which states that no three positive integers a, b, and c can satisfy the equation an + bn = cn for any integer value of n greater than 2.
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Among mathematicians, Pierre de Fermat ranks 13 out of 823. Before him are Omar Khayyam, Euclid, Hypatia, Bertrand Russell, Al-Biruni, and Bernhard Riemann. After him are Fibonacci, John Forbes Nash Jr., Pierre-Simon Laplace, John von Neumann, Joseph-Louis Lagrange, and Henri Poincaré.
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Among people born in 1601, Pierre de Fermat ranks 2. Before him is Louis XIII of France. After him are Anne of Austria, Baltasar Gracián, Jan Brueghel the Younger, Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Gotha, Alonzo Cano, John Eudes, Tugay Bey, Simon de Vlieger, Anne Eleonore of Hesse-Darmstadt, and Alvise Contarini. Among people deceased in 1665, Pierre de Fermat ranks 1. After him are Philip IV of Spain, Nicolas Poussin, Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria, César, Duke of Vendôme, Elisabetta Sirani, Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet, Mary of Jesus of Ágreda, Sigismund Francis, Archduke of Austria, Stefan Czarniecki, Jean Bolland, and Pieter Jansz. Saenredam.
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Among people born in France, Pierre de Fermat ranks 53 out of 6,011. Before him are Pierre de Coubertin (1863), Michel de Montaigne (1533), Émile Zola (1840), Claudius (-10), Brigitte Bardot (1934), and Francis I of France (1494). After him are Michel Foucault (1926), William the Conqueror (1028), Stendhal (1783), Gustave Flaubert (1821), Edgar Degas (1834), and Georges Bizet (1838).
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Among mathematicians born in France, Pierre de Fermat ranks 2. Before him are Blaise Pascal (1623). After him are Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749), Henri Poincaré (1854), Jean le Rond d'Alembert (1717), Joseph Fourier (1768), Évariste Galois (1811), Pope Sylvester II (938), François Viète (1540), Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789), Sophie Germain (1776), and Gaspard Monge (1746).
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