In the 17th century the French mathematician Pierre de Fermat set a challenge for future generations of mathematicians—prove that there are no whole number solutions for the following closely ...

While French mathematician Cedric Villani makes a fashion statement with his hand-crafted spider brooches, silk bows, fine suits and tousled hair, it is his flair for mathematics for which he is ...

Two schools of thought emerged in response, according to Michael Barany, a historian of math and science at the University of Edinburgh. French mathematicians were by and large content to keep going.

TOOK MORE THAN 350 YEARS TO SOLVE Fermat's Last Theorem is a conjecture stated around 1637 by the French mathematician Pierre de Fermat that if n is a positive integer greater than 2, no positive ...

Using this whimsical pseudonym, derived from the name of a general in the Franco-Prussian War, a group of young French mathematicians has written 20 volumes of an extraordinary treatise on mathematics ...

Paul C. Lauterbur, a chemist and director of the Biomedical Magnetic Resonance Laboratory at the University of Illinois College of Medicine, Urbana-Champaign, and André Weil, a French mathematician ...