http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_de_Fermat
Even Google is celebrating:
http://www.google.com/
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2391245,00.asp
Cool....I didn't know my name was Pierre, but thank you.
Seriously. Sounds like a guy right up there with Galileo, Einstein and some of the other real math greats.
Happy Birthday, Tom Adams!
feliz cumpleaños
Don
About 4 yrs after college I decided I wanted to go back and get my engineering degree. The first class I signed up for (at night) was the last term of calculus. I already had two, so figured I may as well get it over with. The prof gave little quiz on the first day, just to see what we knew.
I was totally baffled. The only thing I completed was my name. It may as well been written in Chinese. I talked to teach later and she really helped me alot. I got a B in the class, and never took another college course. I never did really understand any of it, just knew how to work the problems.
I know Fermat was one of those ancient brainiacs, but didn't Sir Issac Newton invent calculus to prove one of his theories? Fermat, and others, just expanded on it with other theories to prove other theories. And they did it without Loyals Majic Black Boxes... 😛 Regardless, those folks were pretty dialed in
A quick seach revealed this:
Thanks Don
Didn't really mean to Highjack. The only other closest guy to a surveyor I know of is Davey Crockett. I heard he was a surveyor, but I don't think I heard of what he surveyed.......
Thanks Don
I knew it was Congressman Crockets birthday, here's a list of famous people born this day, but there's one missing from 1958 (hint: He's a Registered Surveyor in Oregon (License Retired) and living in Alaska.
http://www.brainyhistory.com/daysbirth/birth_august_17.html [/url]
I have a book on "Fermat's Last Theorem".
It's a nice read for the mathematical enthusiast.
Fermat's Last Theorem
> I have a book on "Fermat's Last Theorem".
> It's a nice read for the mathematical enthusiast.
In 1637, Fermi wrote his Theorem which states that:
No three positive integers a, b, and c can satisfy the equation a**n + b**n = c**n for any integer value of n greater than two.
Apparently in Fermi's notes, he said something like, "I have the proof but it's too large to fit in the margins".
It took well over 300 years to finally prove it in 1995. Branches of mathematics were used for the proof that weren't even invented until the 20th century.
