SciHi Blog<p>On January 12, 1665, French lawyer and amateur mathematician Pierre de Fermat, famous for his research in number theory, analytical geometry and probability theory, passed away. He is best known for Fermat’s Last Theorem, which he described in a note at the margin of a copy of Diophantus’ Arithmetica.</p><p><a href="http://scihi.org/pierre-de-fermat-last-problem/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">scihi.org/pierre-de-fermat-las</span><span class="invisible">t-problem/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/maths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>maths</span></a> <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/mathematics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mathematics</span></a> <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/France" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>France</span></a> <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/baroque" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>baroque</span></a> <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/numbertheory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>numbertheory</span></a> <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/lasttheorem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lasttheorem</span></a></p>