This week in Math'n'Mate : Pierre Fermat It’s general consensus that people who are good at math usually aren’t good with literary matters, but is it really so? Despite this general assumption of ours, it appears that some people managed to handle both, and a very famous example of this atypical behaviour would probably be Fermat, the French “lawyer” that truly revolutionized 17th century math. And I, Rali Lahlou, am here to talk about him.