Mind-Bending Math
This Fermat theory says a^n + b^n can't equal c^n for any n bigger than 2.
What is Fermat's Last Theorem?
Fermat lived in this century.
What is the 17th century?
Fermat’s work created this, which helps keep online transactions safe.
What is cryptography?
This physical feature of Fermat inspired a popular internet-based theorem.
What is his large nose?
His optics work supports these professionals making eyewear.
What are opticians?
Fermat’s ideas are used in this branch of physics that deals with light and vision.
What are optics?
Besides math, Fermat also worked as this.
What is a lawyer?
This theory by Fermat shows that certain numbers can only be squared in particular ways.
What is Fermat's theorem on sums of two squares?
Most of Fermat’s famous work was shared through these, not published in books.
What are letters?
Thanks to his number theory, we can buy stuff securely over the internet.
What is making transactions?
Fermat figured out why light travels the way it does with this principle.
What is Fermat's Principle of Least Time?
Fermat was from this country, famous for the Eiffel Tower.
What is France?
Fermat said these types of numbers are cool because you can't divide them evenly by any other number except 1 and themselves.
What are prime numbers?
Fermat’s last theorem was scribbled as a note here, because he ran out of notebooks.
What is the margin of a book?
Fermat’s curiosity about probability helps us figure out things like weather or winning lottery numbers
What is making predictions?
Fermat and Blaise Pascal created this field of mathematics through the mail.
What is probability theory?
Fermat died in this year.
What is 1665?
Fermat loved playing with these shapes, which can be made by slicing a cone.
What are conic sections?
Fermat’s ideas about optics help make these possible, from glasses to cameras.
What are lenses?
The 20th-century mathematician who proved Fermat's Last Theorem over 300 years after it was proposed.
Who is Andrew Wiles?
These Fermat numbers are 2^(2^n) + 1.
What are Fermat primes?
Fermat lived and worked in this French city.
What is Toulouse?
Fermat developed 'adequality' which is used in this branch of mathematics.
What is calculus?
Fermat’s interest in astronomy led him to improve the theory behind these outer space measurements.
What are astronomical tables?
The modern mathematical concept of these structures was influenced by Fermat’s early number theory work.
What are algorithms?