Pierre de Fermat
Pierre de Fermat was a part-time French mathematician. He was known for working alone, and did not have access to a computer.

Upon his death, an equation was found scrawled in the margin of his notes. xn + yn = zn, where n is greater than 2, which he said had no solution in whole numbers. To this he added the phrase "Remarkable proof", but he did not live to write the proof down. The problem became known Fermat's last theorem. ()

His theorem was eventually proved by Andrew Wiles, but people continued to try to find alternative proofs for the next eight hundred years. These included, among others, Jean-Luc Picard, Tobin and Jadzia Dax. (; )

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