11 Quotes by Pierre De Fermat


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    And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown it that the ancients did not know everything.

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    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 have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.

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    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 into like powers; of this I have found a remarkable demonstration. This margin is too narrow to contain it.

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    I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which however the margin is not large enough to contain.

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