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An edition of The mathematical career of Pierre de Fermat, 1601-1665 (1973)

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Hailed as one of the greatest mathematical results of the twentieth century, the recent proof of Fermat's Last Theorem by Andrew Wiles brought to public attention the enigmatic problem-solver Pierre de Fermat, who centuries ago stated his famous conjecture in a margin of a book, writing that he did not have enough room to show his "truly marvelous demonstration." Along with formulating this proposition - x[superscript n] + y[superscript n] = z[superscript n] has no rational solution for n > 2 - Fermat, an inventor of analytic geometry, also laid the foundations of differential and integral calculus, established, together with Pascal, the conceptual guidelines of the theory of probability, and created modern number theory.

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Princeton University Press
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English
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432

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Subjects
Mathematicians, Biography, Fermat, pierre de, 1601-1665
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Pierre de Fermat (1601-1665)
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France

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1994, Princeton University Press
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1973, Princeton University Press
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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510/.92, B
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QA29.F45 M33 1994, QA29.F45M33 1994

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xx, 432 p. :
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432

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0691036667
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29844327
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941768
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208921

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