There is scarcely any one who states purely arithmetical questions, scarcely any who understands them. Is this not because arithmetic has been treated up to this time geometrically rather than arithmetically?


Letter to Frénicle (1657)

Pierre de Fermat Quotes

There is scarcely any one who states purely arithmetical questions, scarcely any who understands them. Is this not because arithmetic has been...

There is scarcely any one who states purely arithmetical questions, scarcely any who understands them. Is this not because arithmetic has been...

There is scarcely any one who states purely arithmetical questions, scarcely any who understands them. Is this not because arithmetic has been...

There is scarcely any one who states purely arithmetical questions, scarcely any who understands them. Is this not because arithmetic has been...