Pierre de Fermat Pierre de Fermat was born in the year 1601 in Beaumont-de-Lomages, France. Mr. Fermat's education began in 1631. He was home schooled. Mr. Fermat was a single man through his life. Pierre de Fermat, like many mathematicians of the early 17th century, found solutions to the four major problems that created a form of math called calculus. Before Sir Isaac Newton was even born, Fermat found a method for finding the tangent to a …
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…the year 1665. Some of the most striking results were discovered after his death on loose sheets of paper or written in the margins of works which he had read and annotated. These annotations are unsupported by proof. Scholars cannot say that Mr. Fermat's theorems are positive until proof is found. Bibliography Bibliography Keyword- Yahoo@aol.com-Pierre de Fermat Keyword- Barnes and Nobles@aol.com- Biography- Pierre de Fermat Keyword- Yahoo@msn.com- Pierre de Fermat