Trinity College: Pierre De Fermat (1601 1665)

Read the biography of one of the greatest mathematicians in history, Pierre de Fermat, on this site.

This site, which is provided for by the University of St. Andrews, gives biographical information on mathematician Pierre de Fermat.

The events of the life of Pierre Laplace are presented in a timeline form. The biographical information is taken from "A Short Account of the History of Mathematics" by W. W. Rouse Ball (4th Edition, 1908).

The events of the life of Abraham de Moivre are presented in a very abbreviated timeline form. The biographical information is taken from "A Short Account of the History of Mathematics" by W. W. Rouse Ball (4th Edition, 1908).

This is an introduction to the study of probability. It tells the story of two of the greatest mathematicians, Blaise Pascal and Pierre de Fermat, who used coin tosses of heads or tails to determine who paid the bill. It led to the...

This page of brief biographies taken from "A Short Account of the History of Mathematics," includes a paragraph on the life and work of Gabriel Cramer of "Cramer's Rule," fame.

This site describes the magic of numbers through different mathematicians. Contributions of the following mathematicians: Pierre de Fermat, Pitagoras de Samos, Nicomaco de Gerasa, Diofanto de Alejandria, G. Bachet de Meziriac, Rene...

Discusses the two math problems that baffled mathematicians for ages, Fermat's Last Theorem and Riemann's Hypothesis. The latter is still unsolved.