Famous Discoveries
Fermat's idea that any prime number of the form 4k + 1 can be written as the sum of two squares.
What is Fermat's theorem on sums of two squares?
The year Pierre de Fermat was born.
What is 1607?
Fermat contributed to this branch of mathematics that deals with shapes and spaces.
What is geometry?
Fermat’s work laid the groundwork for this field of mathematics, developed further by Newton and Leibniz.
What is calculus?
Fermat often wrote letters to this famous mathematician.
Who is Blaise Pascal?
Fermat's method that helped find maximum and minimum values, influencing calculus.
What is Fermat's method of adequality?
The country where Fermat was born.
What is France?
Fermat’s method for finding tangents to curves.
What is Fermat's method of tangents?
Fermat's ideas contributed significantly to this branch of mathematics that deals with the study of numbers and their properties.
What is number theory?
The field besides mathematics where Fermat made contributions.
What is optics?
Fermat's theorem that helps determine if a number is prime.
What is Fermat's Little Theorem?
Fermat's job besides being a mathematician.
What is a lawyer?
Fermat's rule to find maximum and minimum points of functions.
What is Fermat's principle of stationary points?
Fermat’s method of finding maximum and minimum values influenced the development of this mathematical concept.
What are derivatives?
Fermat’s habit of not providing proofs earned him this nickname.
What is "The Prince of Amateurs"?
Fermat’s principle stating that light follows the path that takes the least time.
What is Fermat's principle of least time?
The university where Fermat studied law.
What is the University of Orléans?
Fermat's work in this area involves properties of numbers.
What is number theory?
Fermat's principle of least time influenced the study of this branch of physics.
What is optics?
The book where Fermat wrote his Last Theorem in the margin.
What is the Arithmetica by Diophantus?
This famous conjecture by Fermat puzzled mathematicians for over 350 years.
What is Fermat's Last Theorem?
The city where Fermat spent most of his professional life
What is Toulouse?
Fermat's work laid the groundwork for the development of this mathematical field by Newton and Leibniz.
What is calculus?
Fermat’s correspondence with this mathematician led to the development of probability theory.
Who is Blaise Pascal?
Fermat's relationship with this famous philosopher and mathematician known for "I think, therefore I am".
Who is René Descartes?