My paper research of mathematicians is on Pierre De Fermat. Pierre de Fermat was born in August 17, 1601 near Beaumont-de-Lomagne in a small town in south part of France. Pierre de Fermat father was a wealthy leather merchant; his father did not let Pierre go to school so he was educated at home. Pierre had a family he had a brother name Clement and two sisters their name were Louise and Marie. His uncle and godfather …showed first 75 words of 813 total…

…showed last 75 words of 813 total…mathematicians in the world. He was the best mathematicians in the 17 century. Pierre was best known for all of his numbers theory and probability theory that he made with Pascal. Fermat was a great lawyer at Toulouse and he was best known to the world as the "Prince of Amateur" for his studies of math and discovering new theorems. Fermat was one of the two leading mathematicians of the first half in the 17th century.