The Early History of Fermat’s Last Theorem

Paulo Ribenboim
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Paulo Ribenboim: Jeffery Hall Queen’s University, Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Chapter Lecture I in 13 Lectures on Fermat’s Last Theorem, 1979, pp 1-18 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Pierre de Fermat (1601–1665) was a French judge who lived in Toulouse. He was a universal spirit, cultivating poetry, Greek philology, law but mainly mathematics. His special interest concerned the solutions of equations in integers.

Keywords: Early History; Unique Factorization; Principal Ideal; Bernoulli Number; Golden Medal (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1979
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4684-9342-9_1

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