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- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 17 August 1601, 1607
- Died
- 12 January 1665
- Place of birth
- Beaumont-de-Lomagne
- Place of death
- Castres
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Pierre
- Family name
- de Fermat
- Spouse
- Louise de Long
- Child
- Samuel de Fermat
- Field of work
- number theory, statute, mathematics, probability theory, mathematical analysis, analytic geometry, optics, Fermat number, Fermat's little theorem, Fermat's Last Theorem
- Occupation
- mathematician, lawyer, judge, polyglot, jurist
- Citizenship
- France
- academic degree
- Bachelor of Laws
- academic major
- civil law
- depicted by
- Portrait of Pierre de Fermat
- described by source
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, BEIC Digital Library, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), Physicists: Biographical Dictionary, Olomouc City Library regional database
- educated at
- Old University of Orléans
- employer
- Parliament of Toulouse
- influenced by
- Diophantus of Alexandria, Gerolamo Cardano, François Viète
- name in native language
- Pierre de Fermat
- notable work
- Fermat's principle, Fermat's Last Theorem, Fermat's little theorem, Fermat point, Fermat number
- number of children
- 8, 5
- place of burial
- Castres
- significant event
- cremation
- topic's main category
- Category:Pierre de Fermat
- writing language
- French
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