Today is Pierre de Fermat's birthday, so i decided to post 3 cool things about him. :)
!. the guy was born in a museum! is that cool or what?
2. he was a lawyer and a mathematician (i dunno, it seems to me like that is an unusual combination)
3. he was given credit for "early developments that led to infinitesimal calculus, including his adequality. In particular, he is recognized for his discovery of an original method of finding the greatest and the smallest ordinates of curved lines, which is analogous to that of the then unknown differential calculus, and his research into number theory." (wiki)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Pierre de Fermat'!
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