From the Microelectronics Timeline: born this day- Pierre de Fermat Born August 17 1601 in Beaumont-de-Lomagne, France. Lawyer and an amateur mathematician who is given credit for early developments that led to infinitesimal calculus, including his technique of adequality. In particular, he is recognized for his discovery of an original method of finding the greatest and the smallest ordinates of curved lines, which is analogous to that of the differential calculus, then unknown, and his research into number theory. He made notable contributions to analytic geometry, probability, and optics. He is best known for Fermats Last Theorem, which he described in a note at the margin of a copy of Diophantus Arithmetica. Richard Laming Born August 17 1799 in Margate, England. Surgeon, natural philosopher, inventor, chemist and industrialist. During his leisure moments, Richard developed an interest in the theory of electricity. Between 1838 and 1851 he published a series of papers speculating about the electrical makeup of atoms. He hypothesized that there existed sub-atomic particles of unit charge; perhaps one of the first persons ever to do so. He suggested that the atom was made up of a core of material surrounded by concentric shells of these electrical atoms, or particles. He also believed that these particles could be added or subtracted to an atom, changing its charge. Find your place.
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