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Pierre de Fermat died on January 12, 1665, at Castres, in the present-day department of Tarn. [22] The oldest and most prestigious high school in Toulouse is named after him: the Lycée Pierre-de-Fermat. French sculptor Théophile Barrau made a marble statue named Hommage à Pierre Fermat as a tribute to Fermat, now at the Capitole de Toulouse.
He later corresponded with Pierre de Fermat on probability theory, strongly influencing the development of modern economics and social science. In 1642, he started some pioneering work on calculating machines (called Pascal's calculators and later Pascalines), establishing him as one of the first two inventors of the mechanical calculator. [8] [9]
Barner, Klaus (2001), "Pierre de Fermat (1601?-1665): His life besides mathematics" in the Newsletter of the European Mathematical Society No. 42, December 2001, pages 12-16. EMS Newsletter December 2001 (PDF). I would also not oppose, qualifying our date in some way, to acknowledge the traditional birth date, and indicate some uncertainty.
In mathematics, the witch of Agnesi (Italian pronunciation: [aɲˈɲeːzi,-eːsi;-ɛːzi]) is a cubic plane curve defined from two diametrically opposite points of a circle. The curve was studied as early as 1653 by Pierre de Fermat, in 1703 by Guido Grandi, and by Isaac Newton.
Adequality is a technique developed by Pierre de Fermat in his treatise Methodus ad disquirendam maximam et minimam [1] (a Latin treatise circulated in France c. 1636 ) to calculate maxima and minima of functions, tangents to curves, area, center of mass, least action, and other problems in calculus.
Pierre de Fermat (1607–1665) Evangelista Torricelli (1608–1647) Giovanni Alfonso Borelli (1608–1679) Jeremiah Horrocks (1618–1641) Francesco Maria Grimaldi (1618–1663) Jacques Rohault (1618–1672) Blaise Pascal^ (1623–1662) Erhard Weigel (1625–1699) Christiaan Huygens^ (1629–1695) Ignace-Gaston Pardies (1636–1673)
Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (/ ˌ d ɪər ɪ ˈ k l eɪ /; [1] German: [ləˈʒœn diʁiˈkleː]; [2] 13 February 1805 – 5 May 1859) was a German mathematician.In number theory, he proved special cases of Fermat's last theorem and created analytic number theory.
Mersenne asked if Descartes wanted Campanella to come to Holland to meet him, but Descartes declined. He visited Italy fifteen times, in 1640, 1641 and 1645. In 1643–1644 Mersenne also corresponded with the German Socinian Marcin Ruar concerning the Copernican ideas of Pierre Gassendi, finding Ruar already a supporter of Gassendi's position. [8]