Toulouse: Jean Pech, 1679. First edition, very rare, with the even rarer portrait, and the Blenhiem Palace copy, of the first publication of the most important works of Pierre de Fermat (1601-65), arguably the greatest French mathematician of the seventeenth century (Descartes and Pascal notwithstanding), “the father of the modern..... More
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Toulouse: Bernard Bosc, 1670. First edition of Fermat’s annotated edition of Diophantus’ Arithmetica. This is the first printing of Fermat’s contributions to the theory of numbers, of which he is the undisputed founder, including his famous statement of ‘Fermat’s last theorem.’ Since most of Fermat’s work in number theory remained..... More
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