What language is this and what does it mean?

Question

I need this for a math poster I have to do and I found this really cool picture of Pierre de Fermat a mathematician, but I wanted to know what it was, like a dollar or something, and most importantly what it says.

here's the link: http://www.u.lodz.pl/~wibig/hieronim/Fermat6.jpg

thanks in advance

Answer 1

French

Answer 2

It's a French postage stamp from 2001 on the 400th anniversary of his birth (the period that there was a change from the French Franc to the Euro).

It's says in French "n'a pas de solution pour des entiers > 2" : 'has no solution for integers greater then 2' and refers to the famous "Fermat's Last Theorem".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat

"If an integer n is greater than 2, then the equation an + bn = cn has no solutions in non-zero integers a, b, and c."

"Fermat's Last Theorem" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat%27s_...

Answer 3

It's French.

n'a pas = ne a pas = doesn't have

de solution = any solution

pour = for

des entiers = whole (numbers?)

"Pierre de Fermat doesn't have any solution for whole numbers greater than two."

Answer 4

It's French for "doesn't have any solution for...", and i think des entiers is "entire", so basically it says "doesn't have any solution for entire n>2"

nope, makes little sense to me either, lol

Answer 5

It says

x^n + y^n = z^n has no solution for integers n>2.

It's Fermat's last theorem, and was extremely difficult to solve.

Answer 6

has no solutions for integers n>2

Answer 7

it's French

Answer 8

umm im not too sure if im right so dont count on me but i think its french?