Pierre de Fermat Quotes
- I am more exempt and more distant than any man in the world
- I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which however the margin is not large enough to contain.
- To divide a cube into two other cubes, a fourth power, or in general any power whatever into two powers of the same denomination above…
- And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown that the ancients did not know everything.
- I have found a very great number of exceedingly beautiful theorems.
- It is impossible for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of two like powers. I…
- But it is impossible to divide a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into fourth powers, or generally any power beyond the square…
- And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown it that the ancients did not know everything.
- I will share all of this with you whenever you wish.