Top 10 Quotes & Sayings by Pierre de Fermat

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Last updated on September 20, 2024.

Pierre de Fermat was a French mathematician who is given credit for early developments that led to infinitesimal calculus, including his technique of adequality. In particular, he is recognized for his discovery of an original method of finding the greatest and the smallest ordinates of curved lines, which is analogous to that of differential calculus, then unknown, and his research into number theory. He made notable contributions to analytic geometry, probability, and optics. He is best known for his Fermat's principle for light propagation and his Fermat's Last Theorem in number theory, which he described in a note at the margin of a copy of Diophantus' Arithmetica. He was also a lawyer at the Parlement of Toulouse, France.

French - Lawyer | August 20, 1601 - January 12, 1655

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Pierre de Fermat

I have found a very great number of exceedingly beautiful theorems.

Pierre de Fermat

It is impossible for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of two like powers. I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.

Pierre de Fermat

I am more exempt and more distant than any man in the world.

Pierre de Fermat

But it is impossible to divide a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into fourth powers, or generally any power beyond the square into like powers; of this I have found a remarkable demonstration. This margin is too narrow to contain it.

Pierre de Fermat

And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown it that the ancients did not know everything.

Pierre de Fermat

To divide a cube into two other cubes, a fourth power, or in general any power whatever into two powers of the same denomination above the second is impossible, and I have assuredly found an admirable proof of this, but the margin is too narrow to contain it.

Pierre de Fermat

I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which however the margin is not large enough to contain.

Pierre de Fermat

I am more exempt and more distant than any man in the world

Pierre de Fermat

And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown that the ancients did not know everything.

Pierre de Fermat