"Fermat is... honored with the invention of the differential calculus on account of his method of maxima and minima an…"

"Et cette proposition est généralement vraie en toutes progressions et en tous nombres premiers; de quoi je vous envoi…"

"There is scarcely any one who states purely arithmetical questions, scarcely any who understands them. Is this not be…"

"The result of my work has been the most extraordinary, the most unforeseen, and the happiest, that ever was; for, aft…"

"Fermat's Last Theorem is to the effect that no integral values of x, y, z can be found to satisfy the equation xn+yn=…"

"Descartes' method of finding tangents and normals... was not a happy inspiration. It was quickly superseded by that o…"

"Perhaps nowhere does one find a better example of the value of historical knowledge for mathematicians than in the ca…"

"Fermat had recourse to the principle of the economy of nature. Heron and Olympiodorus had pointed out in antiquity th…"

"Since Fermat introduced the conception of infinitely small differences between consecutive values of a function and a…"

"J.M. Child... has made a searching study of Barrow and has arrived at startling conclusions on the historical questio…"