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Fermat — Mathematician and magistrate at the parlement of Toulouse, died in 1665
Son of a leather merchant, bachelor of law at Orléans in 1626, councillor at the parlement of Toulouse from 1631, he was a mathematician only through his letters and the margins of his books, and published almost nothing in his lifetime. The year of his birth is disputed. (Editorial synthesis)
Fermat was born in Beaumont-de-Lomagne. (source: Larousse)
Fermat died on 12 January 1665. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Fermat died in Castres. (source: Larousse)
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