Occupation: Lawyer Birth: August 17, 1601 Death: January 12, 1665
And perhaps, posterity will thank me for having shown that the ancients did not know everything..
I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which however the margin is not large enough to contain..
I am more exempt and more distant than any man in the world.
It is impossible for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of two like powers. I have a truly marvelous demonstr….
To divide a cube into two other cubes, a fourth power, or in general any power whatever into two powers of the same denomination above the second is ….
I have found a very great number of exceedingly beautiful theorems..