Pierre de Fermat
By: by Chad Boutin.
Series: Profiles in mathematics
Publisher: Morgan Reynolds Pub.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Greensboro, N.C
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781599350615
Subjects: Fermat, Pierre de, -- 1601-1665; Mathematicians -- France -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Early years; title: Meeting the master; title: Introduction to the Paris circle; title: A stream from the south; title: A comedy of errors; title: The lure of pure numbers; title: The shape of numbers; title: The quiet years and the last theorem; title: The world turns away; title: Fermat's last days.