Pierre de Fermat,
1601-1665
French Mathematician
There is a learning disorder called dyscalculia—and I probably have it. I have never been tested or diagnosed, but when I came across the condition recently on the Internet, I experienced one of those Eureka! moments.
What are the symptoms? “Normal or accelerated language acquisition: verbal, reading, writing. Poetic ability. Good visual memory for the printed word. Good in the areas of science (until a level requiring higher math skills is reached), geometry (figures with logic not formulas), and creative arts,”
Pierre de Fermat
"Fermat’s Last Theorem" states that the Pythagorean equation (a2 + b2 = c2) is true only for squares and that no positive integers can be found to satisfy the equation when the exponent is greater than two. Mathematicians had assumed this fact for many hundreds of years, but failed to prove it. Fermat did what many scholars before him could not, leading to countless future discoveries in Algebra and Calculus.
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