费马

費馬

Fèimǎ

noun #23,960

Meanings

1 Fermat (Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician, 1607–1665)

Characters

phonetic (also: to spend / expense)

phonetic (also: horse)

Examples

费马大定理困扰了数学家三百多年。

Fèimǎ dà dìnglǐ kùnrǎo le shùxuéjiā sānbǎi duō nián.

Fermat's Last Theorem puzzled mathematicians for over three hundred years.

费马是十七世纪最重要的数学家之一。

Fèimǎ shì shíqī shìjì zuì zhòngyào de shùxuéjiā zhī yī.

Fermat was one of the most important mathematicians of the seventeenth century.

In Pop Culture

费马大定理 Fèimǎ dà dìnglǐ

Fermat's Last Theorem

The conjecture written in Fermat's margin in 1637 — that no three positive integers satisfy a^n + b^n = c^n for n > 2 — was finally proved by Andrew Wiles in 1995, becoming one of the most celebrated proofs in history.

Stroke Order

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