Crossword-Solution: FERMAT
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| His "last theorem" was finally solved in 1993 | 1 answer |
| name Theorem Auxiliary | 1 answer |
| __'s Last Theorem | 1 answer |
| Pierre with a theorem | 1 answer |
| Mathematician with a theorem that was unproven for 300 years | 1 answer |
| Mathematician Pierre whose "last theorem" took 358 years to prove | 1 answer |
| Math theorem author | 1 answer |
| Marginal mathematician? | 1 answer |
| It took 358 years to prove his "last theorem" | 1 answer |
| French mathematician with a noted "last theorem" | 1 answer |
| French mathematician who pioneered in the theory of probability | 1 answer |
| French mathematician Pierre de __ | 1 answer |
| Founder of modern theory of numbers | 1 answer |
| Eponym of a famous math theorem | 1 answer |
| French mathematician | 6 answers |
| AUXILIARY THEOREM | 10 answers |
| CENTRAL ___ THEOREM | 10 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RTEEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with FERMAT (5)
Fermat also proved that the law for refraction (bending) of light results from light's following the path that takes the shortest time.
Thus, taking them from south-east to north-west, they appear on the French charts in the following order: 1, Cap Buffon; 2, Cap Lannes; 3, Baie de Rivoli; 4, Cap de Jaffa; 5, Cap Rabelais; 6, Cap Dombey; 7, Baie de Guichen; 8, Cap Bernoulli; 9, Baie Lacepede; 10, Cap Morard de Galles; 11, Cap Fermat; 12, Cap Monge 13, Cap Caffarelli; 14, Cap Villars; 15, Baie Mollien; 16, Cap Mollien 17, Baie Cretet; 18, Cap Cretet; 19, Iles Decaen; 20, Cap Decaen; 21, Cap Montelivet.
The general problem, of which this is a particular case, is known as the "Pellian Equation"--apparently because Pell neither first propounded the question nor first solved it! It was issued as a challenge by Fermat to the English mathematicians of his day.
Fermat showed in a letter to Mersenne or Frénicle, in 1643, how we may discover whether a number may be expressed as the difference of two squares in more than one way, or proved to be a prime.
From the time when Pascal and Fermat established its first principles, it has rendered and continues daily to render services of the most eminent kind.
Quotes with FERMAT (3)
The ray of light has to know where it will ultimately end up before it can choose the direction to begin moving in""Fermat's principle sounds weird because it describes light's behavior in goal-oriented terms. It sounds like a commandment to a light beam: "Thou shalt minimize or maximize the time taken to reach thy destination.
Carnal embrace is sexual congress, which is the insertion of the male genital organ into the female genital organ for purposes of procreation and pleasure. Fermat’s last theorem, by contrast, asserts that when x, y and z are whole numbers each raised to power of n, the sum of the first two can never equal the third when n is greater than 2.
Some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it turns out that they're extremely hard to solve. There's no reason why these problems shouldn't be easy, and yet they turn out to be extremely intricate. [Fermat's] Last Theorem is the most beautiful example of this.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Onion, WSJ.
Used 12 times in crossword archives (1986–2011).