Pierre de Fermat vs Thomas Hobbes
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Compare the life timelines of Pierre de Fermat (1607–1665) and Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) side by side. Their lives overlapped for 58 years, from 1607 to 1665.
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Pierre de Fermat (1607–1665)
- — Born in Beaumont-de-Lomagne, France Verified
- — Received a bachelor's degree in civil law from the University of Orleans Verified
- — Purchased the office of councillor at the Parlement of Toulouse Verified
- — Married Louise de Long Verified
- — Developed methods of maxima, minima, and tangents anticipating calculus Verified
- — Wrote the marginal note stating Fermat's Last Theorem Verified
- — Co-founded probability theory in correspondence with Blaise Pascal Verified
- — Formulated the principle of least time in optics Verified
- — Died in Castres, France Verified
Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)
- — Born in Westport, near Malmesbury, Wiltshire, England Verified
- — Studied at Magdalen Hall, Oxford Verified
- — Became tutor to William Cavendish, beginning a lifelong connection with the Cavendish family Verified
- — Published his English translation of Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War Verified
- — Fled to Paris ahead of the English Civil War Verified
- — Served as mathematics tutor to the future King Charles II in Paris Verified
- — Published Leviathan Verified
- — Returned to England and submitted to the Council of State Verified
- — Published verse translations of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey in his late eighties Verified
- — Died at Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire, aged 91 Verified