The Fermat prize of mathematical research rewards research works in fields where the contributions of Pierre de Fermat have been decisive: Euclid, Greek mathematician, 3rd century BC, as imagined by by Raphael in this detail from The School of Athens. ... Research is a human activity based on intellectual investigation and aimed at discovering, interpreting, and revising human knowledge on different aspects of the world. ... Pierre de Fermat Pierre de Fermat (August 17, 1601 – January 12, 1665) was a French lawyer at the Parliament of Toulouse and a mathematician who is given credit for the development of modern calculus. ...

• Statements of Variational Principles
• Foundations of Probability and Analytical Geometry
• Number theory.

The spirit of the prize is focused on rewarding the results of researches accessible to the greatest number of professional mathematicians within these fields. The Fermat prize was created in 1989 and is awarded once every two years in Toulouse. The amount of the Fermat prize has been fixed at 20 000 Euros for the tenth edition (2007). Calculus of variations is a field of mathematics which deals with functions of functions, as opposed to ordinary calculus which deals with functions of numbers. ... Probability is the chance that something is likely to happen or be the case. ... Analytic geometry, also called coordinate geometry and earlier referred to as Cartesian geometry or analytical geometry, is the study of geometry using the principles of algebra. ... Number theory is the branch of pure mathematics concerned with the properties of numbers in general, and integers in particular, as well as the wider classes of problems that arise from their study. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... New city flag (Occitan cross) Traditional coat of arms Motto: (Occitan: For Toulouse, always more) Location Coordinates Time Zone CET (GMT +1) Administration Country France Region Midi-Pyrénées Department Haute-Garonne (31) Intercommunality Community of Agglomeration of Greater Toulouse Mayor Jean-Luc Moudenc  (UMP) (since 2004) City Statistics...

Previous prizewinners

• 1989 Awarded jointly to Mr A. Bahri for the introduction of new methods in the Calculation of Variations and to Mr K. A. Ribet for his contribution to Number Theory and Fermat's Last Theorem.

• 1991 Awarded to Mr J.-L. Colliot-Thélène for his work on Number Theory and rational manifolds the research for which was undertaken to a large extent with Mr J.-J. Sansuc.

• 1993 Awarded to Mr J.-M. Coron for his contributions to the study of Variational Problems and Control Theory.

• 1995 Awarded to Mr A. J. Wiles for his works on Shimura-Taniyama-Weil's conjecture which resulted in the demonstration of Fermat's Last Theorem.

• 1997 Awarded to Mr M. Talagrand for his fundamental contributions in various domains of Probability.

• 1999 Awarded jointly to Mr F. Bethuel and F. Helein for several important contributions to the theory of variational calculus, which have consequences in Physics and Geometry.

• 2001 Awarded jointly to R. L. Taylor for his various contributions to the study of links between Galois representations and automorphic forms Mr. W. Werner for his works on the intersection exponents of Brownian motion and their impact in theoretical Physics.

• 2003 Awarded to Mr L. Ambrosio (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italie) for his impressive contributions to the Calculus of Variations and Geometric Measure Theory, and their link with partial differential equations.

• 2005 Awarded jointly to Mr P. Colmez for his contributions to the study of L functions and p-adic Galois representations and to Mr J.-F. Le Gall for his contributions to the fine analysis of planar Brownian motions, his invention of the Brownian snake and its applications to the study of non-linear partial differential equations.

Kenneth Alan Ken Ribet is an American mathematician, currently a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. ... Pierre de Fermat Problem II.8 in the Arithmetica of Diophantus, annotated with Fermats comment which became Fermats Last Theorem (edition of 1670). ... Andrew Wiles should not be confused with André Weil, another famous mathematician who, like Wiles, did important work in the area of elliptic curves. ... The Taniyama-Shimura theorem establishes an important connection between elliptic curves, which are objects from algebraic geometry, and modular forms, which are certain periodic holomorphic functions investigated in number theory. ... There are several people called Richard Taylor: Richard Taylor (UK politician), independent Member of Parliament Richard Taylor (mathematician), involved in completing the proof of Fermats Last Theorem Richard Taylor (physicist), Canadian winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize Richard Taylor (movies), head of Weta Workshop Richard Taylor (musician), former member... Wendelin Werner (born September 1968 in Germany) is a German-born French mathematician working in the area of self-avoiding random walks, Schramm-Loewner evolution, and related theories in probability theory and mathematical physics. ...

External links

• Fermat Prize official web site
• Annales de la faculté des sciences de Toulouse
• Institut Mathématique de Toulouse
• Université Paul Sabatier de Toulouse