Pierre de Fermat died today – 343 years ago

French mathematician Pierre de Fermat was born on August 17, 1601 in Beaumont-de-Lomagne, France. He said, “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." [Whatever.]... Mr. de Fermat died in 1665 in Beaumont-de-Lomagne, France.