The Life of Pierre de Fermat

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Pierre de Fermat was born on August 17th, 1601 in Beaumont-de-Lomagne, France. Mr. Fermat had three other siblings, one brother and two sisters. Their parents names were Dominique Fermat, the father who was a wealthy leather merchant, and Francoise de Cazelneuve, the mother (von Collani). Mr. Fermat attended school in his childhood, although not exactly sure where, it was said to have been in a local Franciscan monastery. When he turned 19, he chose to go to the University of Toulouse. Mr. Fermat did not start off with an interest for math, but once he started attending the University of Bordeaux this interest began (Aaron, Michael, and Jorge).
Mr. Fermat graduated in 1631 from the University of Orleans. Before working on his studies of math, he practiced law in his younger adult life. While doing so he married Louise Du Long, and together they had five children (Aaron, Michael, and Jorge). In his spare time, Mr. Fermat would work on his study of math, this included analytical geometry, pre-evolved calculus, and infinite descent ("Pierre de Fermat"). Mr. Fermat was best known for the Number Theory and was also known as “The Prince of Amateurs of Mathematics” (Christiaens). There were also other works like, mathematical analysis, the theory of probability, and the least time principle (Markov). These works had a big impact on mathematics today, even though Mr. Fermat was only working on these theorems and principles as an amateur hobby.
To discuss and explain a few of his works, Analytic Geometry is the study of geometry on a coordinate plane system. By understanding conic sections, Mr. Fermat gathered that there was a “standard geometrical framework” to produce the correspondence between a curve and an equation. By ...

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