Where?
Born?
Beaumont-de-Lomagne, France
Born?
August 17, 1601
Born? (What kind of life)
Into a wealthy family in Gascony, where his father, Dominique Fermat, was a wealthy leather merchant.
Two leading mathematicians of the first half of the 17th century?
Pierre de Fermat & René Descartes
Pierre de Fermat was a French mathematician who was...
Given recognition for early discoveries that contributed to infinitesimal calculus, especially his inequality approach.
School?
University of Orléans
Go to school?
1623-1626 at the University of Orleans
Discover the fundamental principle of analytic geometry?
The use of his findings, begun in Descartes's Géométrie of 1637, today known as Cartesian geometry since Fermat's Introduction to Loci was published later in 1679.
Making Calculus...
Credited with creating differential calculus since the discovered tangents to curves and the maximum and minimum points of them.
He made important advances in...
Analytical geometry, probability, and optics
Grow up?
Beaumont de Lomagne
Get his degree?
He received a degree in Civil law from the University of Orleans in 1626
Become a co-founder of the theory of probability?
Through his correspondence with Blaise Pascal
Making analytic geometry...
The essential idea of analytical geometry was discovered by Fermat.
Alongside Blaise Pascal, Fermat is credited...
to founding the number theory & Calculus.
Move to?
Bordeaux in his later years, following graduation from university
Come up with his ideas?
21-year-old Fermat made his first big contributions to mathematics in 1629 with novel techniques for locating maxima, minima, and tangents.
The equation for the ordinary parabola ay = x2?
Fermat generalized the equation after studying curves and equations.
Making the theory of probability...
with his colleague Blaise Pascal, he worked on probability issues pertaining to games of chance.
Best known for?
The light-propagation concept of Fermat and his number-theoretic Fermat's Last Theorem.
Pass away?
Castres, present day department of tarn.
Pass away?
Jan 12, 1665
The equation for rectangular hyperbola xy = a2?
Fermat generalized the equation as a result of his research on curves and equations.
What is the Archimedean spiral r = aθ?
A and B are constants, and r and are the angle the point makes with the x-axis and the distance from the origin.
Significant because...
Many new mathematical formulas and rules that have emerged can be attributed to his work. He also made it feasible for infinitesimal calculus to be developed early.