Sunday, April 27, 2014
Library and Published Works of Pierre de Fermat
While going through the library and looking through some online resources, it became clear that there are no officially published works by Fermat. The only things about Fermat that appear in the library are encyclopedias and other references containing brief articles about his life. Additionally there are a few works written about him by other authors discussing the theorems and principles he came up with. The About Mathematics page tells that he did not publish anything, except for one thing which he did so anonymously. Pierre de Fermat was known for sending his mathematical papers to other mathematicians. He also became well known for sending theorems without proofs, which led to the most famous "Fermat's last theorem" problem which puzzled mathematicians for over 300 years.
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