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Pierre de Fermat, 1601-1665. French lawyer and government official most remembered for his work in the foundations of the calculus and in number theory, in particular for Fermat's Last Theorem.

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• Fermat's Last Theorem

  http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/HistTopics/Fermat's_last_theorem.html
  Explains the theorem and traces its history. From the MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive.

• Fermat, Pierre de

  http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Fermat.html
  Biography of the mathematician from Eric Weisstein's World of Scientific Biography.

• Pierre de Fermat

  http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/People/Fermat/RouseBall/RB_Fermat.html
  Excerpt from "A Short Account of the History of Mathematics" (4th edition, 1908) by W. W. Rouse Ball.

• Pierre de Fermat

  http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Fermat.html
  Biography of the mathematician with links to relevant terms and related links. From the MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive.

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