Fermat

American  

[fer-ma, fer-mah] / fɛrˈma, fɛrˈmɑ /

noun

1. Pierre de 1601–65, French mathematician.

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Fermat British  

/ fɛrma, fɜːˈmæt /

noun

1. Pierre de (pjɛr də). 1601–65, French mathematician, regarded as the founder of the modern theory of numbers. He studied the properties of whole numbers and, with Pascal, investigated the theory of probability

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Fermat Scientific  

/ fĕr-mä′ /

1. French mathematician who is best known for his work on probability and on the properties of numbers. He formulated Fermat's last theorem, which remained unsolved for over three hundred years.

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Example Sentences

In the 1970s and 1980s, he directed millions of dollars to Fermat conferences, authors and researchers, giving the old field new life and social acceptability.

From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2022

After more than three centuries of effort, the Fermat infinities had finally been surmounted, and civilization, amazingly, was still intact.

From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2022

Fascination with the Fermat riddle nonetheless lingered among a subset of mathematicians, professional and amateur.

From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2022

She wrote a popular book on analytic geometry, published in 1748, which included an interesting curve that had been studied by Fermat in 1630.

From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016

We should say, Fermat went to such a page, Archimedes went a few pages further.

From Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. by Morley, John