Article ID: CBB000051649

The mysteries of adaequare: A vindication of Fermat (1994)

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Description Argues that the mathematics in Fermat's method of extreme values was clear and coherent, despite the commonly held view that there are several contradictions in Fermat's writings on the subject.


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Authors & Contributors
About, Pierre-José
Alvarez Jimenez, Carlos
Barbin, Évelyne
Barner, Klaus
Blay, Michel
Boy, Michel
Journals
Historia Scientiarum: International Journal of the History of Science Society of Japan
Historia Mathematica
Almagest
Journal Electronique d'Histoire des Probabilités et de la Statistique
Nei Menggu Shifan Daxue Xuebao (Ziran Kexue Ban)
NTM: Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Technik und Medizin
Publishers
University of Pittsburgh
Basic Books
E.N.S.
E. Rauner Verlag
Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal
Concepts
Mathematics
Number theory; number concept
Algebra
Probability and statistics
Infinity
Geometry
People
Fermat, Pierre de
Pascal, Blaise
Descartes, René
Diophantos of Alexandria
Dulaurens, André
Galilei, Galileo
Time Periods
17th century
18th century
19th century
Places
France
Great Britain
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