Examples of using Fermat in English and their translations into Korean
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Around this time one of Descartes' students was collecting his correspondence for publication and he turned to Fermat for help with the Fermat- Descartes correspondence.
Mersenne 's interest was aroused by Carcavi 's descriptions of Fermat's discoveries on falling bodies, and he wrote to Fermat.
Also quoted in full in is the first paper Lerch wrote on number theory and two other papers which he wrote on Fermat quotients.
He wrote angrily to Fermat but although Fermat gave more details in his reply, Frenicle de Bessy felt that Fermat was almost teasing him.
In fact, because of this work, Lagrange stated clearly that he considers Fermat to be the inventor of the calculus.
So by 1631 Fermat was a lawyer and government official in Toulouse and because of the office he now held he became entitled to change his name from Pierre Fermat to Pierre de Fermat.
The problem with working on Fermat is that you could spend years getting nothing so when I went to Cambridge my advisor John Coates was working on Iwasawa theory of elliptic curves and I started working with him….
Having been sent a copy of Descartes' La Dioptrique by Beaugrand, Fermat paid it little attention since he was in the middle of a correspondence with Roberval and Étienne Pascal over methods of integration and using them to find centres of gravity.
His reputation as one of the leading mathematicians in the world came quickly but attempts to get his work published failed mainly because Fermat never really wanted to put his work into a polished form.
During his travels he studied the works of Descartes, Hudde, and Fermat but in addition to mathematical interests he also became increasing interested in physics and astronomy.
At this stage, however, although Hobbes had published little in the way of mathematics, he certainly was considered by some as a leading mathematician on a par with Roberval and Fermat.
Fermat however, feeling his isolation and still wanting to adopt his old style of challenging mathematicians,
This topic did not interest Huygens but Fermat tried hard and in New Account of Discoveries in the Science of Numbers sent to Huygens via Carcavi in 1659, he revealed more of his methods than he had done to others.
He informed the mathematicians in Paris including Boulliau of his discovery and in turn Huygens learnt of the work on probability carried out in a correspondence between Pascal and Fermat.
For example, although he wrote to Fermat praising his work on determining the tangent to a cycloid(which is indeed correct), Descartes wrote to Mersenne claiming that it was incorrect and saying that Fermat was inadequate as a mathematician and a thinker.
Fermat met Carcavi in a professional capacity since both were councillors in Toulouse but they both shared a love of mathematics and Fermat told Carcavi about his mathematical discoveries.
He reasoned that God would not allow the boat to sink on the return journey and give him the same fame that Fermat had achieved with his" last theorem".
Fermat replied on 26 April 1636
After a few years I realised that talking to people casually about Fermat was impossible because it generated too much interest and you cannot focus yourself for years unless you have this kind of undivided concentration which too many spectators would destroy….
From his appointment on 14 May 1631 Fermat worked in the lower chamber of the parliament but on 16 January 1638 he was appointed to a higher chamber, then in 1652