Pierre De FermatYou are currentlybrowsing as guest. Click here to log in |
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Lawyer and amateur mathematician. Tended to claim a lot and prove a little. Regarded as one of the founders of Algebraic Geometry.
Best known for Fermat's Last Theorem (proved by Wiles and Wiles/Taylor) but produced Fermat's Little Theorem, which is the basis for most current public key cryptography.
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