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Pierre de Fermat [1601-1655] French

Rank: 103
Lawyer

Pierre de Fermat was a French lawyer at the Parlement of Toulouse, France, and a mathematician who is given credit for early developments that led to infinitesimal calculus, including his technique of adequality.

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And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown it that the ancients did not know everything.		101
But it is impossible to divide a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into fourth powers, or generally any power beyond the square into like powers; of this I have found a remarkable demonstration. This margin is too narrow to contain it.	Power	102
It is impossible for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of two like powers. I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.	Power	103
I have found a very great number of exceedingly beautiful theorems.		104
I am more exempt and more distant than any man in the world.		105
I will share all of this with you whenever you wish.		106

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