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Quotes from Letter to Frénicle — Pierre de Fermat

1607–1665 France

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There is scarcely any one who states purely arithmetical questions, scarcely any who understands them. Is this not because arithmetic has been treated up to this time geometrically rather than arithmetically?

Letter to Frénicle (1657)

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