Pierre de Fermat Pierre de Fermat was born in 1601 in Beaumont-de-Lomages, France. Mr. Fermat's education began in 1631. He was home schooled. Mr. Fermat was single throughout his life. Pierre de Fermat, like many mathematicians of the early 17th century, found solutions to the four major problems that gave rise to a form of mathematics called calculus. Even before Sir Isaac Newton was born, Fermat found a method for finding the tangent to a curve. He tried different ways in mathematics to improve the system. It was his job. Mr. Fermat was a good scholar, and enjoyed restoring the works of Apollonius on the flat sites. Mr. Fermat published only a few articles during his life and gave no systematic exposition of his methods. He had the habit of scribbling notes in the margins of books or in letters rather than publishing them. He was modest because he thought that if he published his theorems, people would not believe them. He did not appear to have any intention of publishing his articles. It is likely that he revised his notes according to circumstances. His published works represent the definitive form of his research and therefore cannot be dated before 1660. Mr. Pierre de Fermat discovered many things during his life. Some things he included: -If p is a prime and a is a prime of p then ap-1-1 is divisible by p, i.e. ap-1-1=0 (mod p) . The proof of this, first given by Euler, was quite well known. A more general theorem is that a0-(n)-1=0 (mod n), where a is prime...