Pierre de fermat biography and contributions


Pierre de fermat biography and contributions to psychology

Pierre de fermat.

Pierre de Fermat

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Born
17 August 1601
Beaumont-de-Lomagne, France
Died
12 January 1665
Castres, France
Summary
Pierre de Fermat was a French lawyer and government official most remembered for his work in number theory; in particular for Fermat's Last Theorem.

He is also important in the foundations of the calculus.

Biography

Pierre Fermat's father was a wealthy leather merchant and second consul of Beaumont- de- Lomagne. There is some dispute [14] about the date of Pierre's birth as given above, since it is possible that he had an elder brother (who had also been given the name Pierre) but who died young.

Pierre had a brother and two sisters and was almost certainly brought up in the town of his birth.

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    • Although there is little evidence concerning his school education it must have been at the local Franciscan monastery.

    He attended the University of Toulouse before moving to Bordeaux in the second half of the 1620s. In Bordeaux he began his firs