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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Roberts, Bryan W.;
(2011)
How Galileo Dropped the Ball and Fermat Picked It Up
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Carlos Alvarez Jiménez;
Vincent Jullien;
Carmen Martínez-Adame;
(2019)
On the Analytic and Synthetic Demonstrations in Fermat’s Work on the Law of Refraction
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Edwards, Harold M.;
(1978)
Fermat's last theorem
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Rashed, Roshdi;
(1999)
Pierre Fermat et les débuts modernes de l'analyse diophantiene
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Essay Review
Gispert, Hélène;
(2000)
La capture du social dans les mathématques et leur histoire
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Miyake, Katsuya;
(1999)
Did Fermat See These Structures?
(/isis/citation/CBB000330314/)
Article
Stedall, Jacqueline;
(2012)
John Wallis and the French: His Quarrels with Fermat, Pascal, Dulaurens, and Descartes
(/isis/citation/CBB001251200/)
Chapter
Weil, André;
(1977)
Fermat et l'équation de Pell
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Book
Bussotti, Paolo;
(2006)
From Fermat to Gauss: Indefinite Descent and Methods of Reduction in Number Theory
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Courgeau, Daniel;
(2010)
Dispersion of Measurements in Demography
(/isis/citation/CBB001021435/)
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Barner, Klaus;
(2001)
How old did Fermat become?
(/isis/citation/CBB000100538/)
Article
Mo, De;
(2004)
Some Problems of Cartesian Research
(/isis/citation/CBB000401196/)
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Paradís, Jaume;
Pla, Josep;
Viader, Pelegrí;
(2008)
Fermat's Method of Quadrature
(/isis/citation/CBB000930659/)
Chapter
Evelyne Barbin;
(2016)
Universality versus Generality: An Interpretation of the Dispute over Tangents between Descartes and Fermat
(/isis/citation/CBB006076927/)
Article
Blay, Michel;
(1999)
Méthodes mathématiques et calcul de l'infini au temps de Fermat
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Book
Devlin, Keith J.;
(2008)
The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter That Made the World Modern
(/isis/citation/CBB000951859/)
Book
Serfati, Michel;
Descotes, Dominique;
(2008)
Mathématiciens français du XVIIe siècle. Descartes, Fermat, Pascal
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Thesis
Muntersbjorn, Madeline M.;
(1994)
Algebraic reasoning and representation in 17th century mathematics: Fermat and the Treatise on Quadrature c. 1657
(/isis/citation/CBB001565494/)
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Shoesmith, Eddie;
(1983)
Expectation and the early probabilists
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Book
About, Pierre-José;
Boy, Michel;
(1983)
La correspondance de Blaise Pascal et de Pierre de Fermat: La géométrie du hasard ou le début du calcul des probabilités
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