In truth, Messrs Euler and Lagrange, who have not disdained this kind of research, have proved most of these theorems.
ADRIEN-MARIE LEGENDREAnd all means of discovering them are equally admissible.
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All the truths of mathematics are linked to each other.
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And have even substituted extensive theories for the isolated propositions of Fermat.
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These … tables (values of trignometric functions), constructed by means of new techniques based principally on the calculus of differences.
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But there are several proofs which have resisted their efforts.
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did not leave us with the proofs of the theorems he discovered.
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Are one of the most beautiful monuments ever erected to science.
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And all means of discovering them are equally admissible.
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It is a matter for considerable regret that Fermat, who cultivated the theory of numbers with so much success.
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