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Later in life, using his method of “infinite descent,” Fermat proved that there are no non-zero solutions to Fermat's.

In one of the first full-length investigations of Fermat's life and work, Michael Sean Mahoney provides rare insight into the mathematical genius of a hobbyist.

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In one of the first full-length investigations of Fermat's life and work, Michael Sean Mahoney provides rare insight into the mathematical genius of a hobbyist..

Fermat's last theorem

Pierre de Fermat died in Today we think of Fermat as a number theorist, in fact as perhaps the most famous number theorist who ever lived.

It is therefore surprising to find that Fermat was in fact a lawyer and only an amateur mathematician. Also surprising is the fact that he published only one mathematical paper in his life, and that was an anonymous article written as an appendix to a colleague's book.

You can see a statue of Fermat and his muse in his home town of Toulouse at THIS LINK.

Because Fermat refused to publish his work, his friends feared that it would soon be forgotten unless something was done about it.

In one of the first full-length investigations of Fermat's life and work, Michael Sean Mahoney provides rare insight into the mathematical.

His son, Samuel undertook the task of collecting Fermat's letters and other mathematical papers, comments written in books, etc. with the object of publishing his father's mathematical ideas. In this way the famous 'Last theorem' came to be published.

It was found by Samuel written as a marginal note in his father's copy of Diophantus's