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Born August 17, 1601 • France
Died January 12, 1665 (aged 63) • Castres • France
Notable Works “Introduction to Loci”
Subjects Of Study Fermat prime • Fermat’s hyperbola • Fermat’s last theorem • Fermat’s parabola • Fermat’s principle • Fermat’s spiral • Fermat’s theorem • analytic geometry • curve • differentiation • prime

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Fermat, portrait by Roland Lefèvre; in the Narbonne City Museums, France
A geometric diagram illustrating Fermat's tangent method, showing a curve intersecting a triangle with labeled points, axes, and segments representing variables x, epsilon, y, and y1.
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