More from the twitter X isn’t all terrible files

So much in one tweet.

Inspiring. Picture Fermat coming home from the office and working on maths after dinner, for fun. What’s your after dinner fun?

Interesting how ambition can fluctuate between people, but success occur. Colossal Descartes. Modest hobbyist Pierre de Fermat. Both with immense contributions to mathematics. Descartes inventing analytic geometry, and Fermat the “founder” of the modern theory of numbers.

How does a lawyer from Toulouse go on to be what Britannica calls “one of the two leading mathematicians of the first half of the 17th century“?

(Boyer, Carl B.. “Pierre de Fermat”. Encyclopedia Britannica, Invalid Date, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Pierre-de-Fermat. Accessed 19 September 2023.)

h/t @netcapgirl