PIERRE DE FERMAT TERM PAPER HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS RUTGERS FRENCH MATHEMATICIAN PRODUCTIVE WERE TO NUMBER THE LAW OF SURVEY CONTRIBUTIONS PARTICULAR ATTENTION WORK IN ACCOUNT BACKGROUND TAKEN MATHEMATICAL CAREER SMALL TOWN TOULOUSE IN THE SOUTH THE BORDER DOMINIQUE WEALTHY LEATHER MERCHANT THE POSITION SECOND CONSUL GOVERNMENTAL POSITION SIMILAR MAYOR IN OUR TIME DAUGHTER FERMAT TWO SISTERS LOUISE LITTLE BASQUE ORIGIN PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION THE MONASTERY RUN CORDELIERS ADVANCED THE UNIVERSITY OF MOVING BORDEAUX THE SECOND HALF GAVE PLANE MATHEMATICIANS BEAUGRAND THIS TIME WORK MAXIMA AND MINIMA STUDY THE UNIVERSITY OF LAW DEGREE BACHELOR OF CIVIL LAWS CHOICE LEGAL NATURAL WEALTH BE IN AVENUE HIGHER SOCIAL STATUS POLITICAL POWER THE OFFICE COUNCILLOR THE PARLIAMENT SOON ACQUIRED COUSIN FOURTH DOWRY PROBLEM YOUNG LAWYER THE LOCAL PARLIAMENT LEGISLATOR ENTIRE THE UPPER CLASS OFFICES MEMBER SOCIAL CLASS ENTITLED THE MARK NOBILITY PRIVATE LIFE FIVE CHILDREN EVENTUALLY INHERITED OFFICE OF THE REMAINDER LIVED HOMETOWN NEARBY TOWN OF CHAMBER OF PARLIAMENT THE HIGHER CHAMBER FINALLY PROMOTED HIGHEST LEVEL THE CRIMINAL PEOPLE THE PLAGUE THE EARLY OLDER HIMSELF STRUCK DOWN DEATH DEVELOPMENT OF THE CALCULUS PROPERTIES AREAS BOUNDED BELL STATES THE CREATORS GEOMETRIC KINEMATICAL INTUITION IMAGINATIONS GRAPH CONTINUOUS CALL PROCESS INTEGRAL CALCULUS IRONIC THE FUNDAMENTAL THEOREM OF SUBJECT DIFFERENTIAL CALCULUS ADDITION CONTRIBUTION DISAGREEMENT THE PHILOSOPHER AMATEUR RAY OF LIGHT POINT IN PASSING JELLY VARIABLE MANNER THE PATH MUST BACK AND FORTH REQUIREMENT PASS SHALL DESCARTES TRYING JUSTIFY SINE LAW SAYING LIGHT TRAVELS DENSER MEDIA INVOLVED TWENTY YEARS LATER CONFLICT VIEW NATURE ALWAYS CHOOSES METHOD THE ASSUMPTION LESS THE MEDIUM CONSISTENT THE PRINCIPLE PRINCIPLE THE FAMILIAR LAWS OF REFLECTION THE ANGLE CONSTANT TIMES FROM ONE MEDIUM DISCUSS NUMBER THEORY GREATER DETAIL WE BEGIN FAMOUS STATEMENT PRIME POSITIVE PRIME NUMBER GREATER THAN ITSELF EXAMPLE PRIMES EXPLAINS THE NUMBERS BELONG TO SEQUENCE SIMPLE THUS THE SEQUENCE SEEN HERE WANTED CHECK NUMBERS EASY UNLESS FOLLOW PREVIOUS GUESSED PROVE WRONG DO NOT WHETHER FERMAT NUMBERS DISCOVERED OF THE FORM SUM OF TWO SQUARES ALMOST ALL LEFT WRITTEN PROOF WRITE LETTER FRIEND PROVED THE COURSE REASONING AFFIRMATIVE PROPOSITIONS ARBITRARILY CHOSEN LESS THAN THE ONE TILL SO ON COMES NUMBER 5 LEAST OF ALL SEES SAYS THE LETTER THEREFORE INFER REDUCTIO AD ABSURDUM SUMS OF TWO SQUARES CAUSES DEVICE THE METHOD INFINITE DESCENT INVERTED MATHEMATICAL INDUCTION DERIVED THEOREM DIVISIBLE ONCE AGAIN CASE GERMAN LEONHARD EULER THE 18TH CENTURY SWISS LAST READING DIOPHANTUS MARGINAL NOTE RECENTLY READ THE EIGHTH ASKS THE SOLUTION RATIONAL NUMBERS THE EQUATION IMPOSSIBLE CUBE FOURTH POWER POWER ABOVE POWERS OF TRULY MARVELOUS DEMONSTRATION GENERAL MARGIN NONZERO WHOLE NUMBERS FRACTIONS WHOLE NUMBER MANY YEARS REMEMBERED CONCLUSION GREATEST SEVENTEENTH CENTURY DIED JANUARY 1 INFLUENCE PUBLISH BIBLIOGRAPHY DONALD MEN OF MATHEMATICS SIMON INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS SAUNDERS COLLEGE PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS