Template:Are You Sure/February 25

• ... that mathematician, linguist, poet, and scholar Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac wrote a translation (1621), from Greek to Latin, of the Arithmetica of Diophantus; that it was this very translation in which Fermat wrote his famous margin note claiming that he had a proof of Fermat's last theorem; and that this translation renders Diophantus' term παρισὀτης as adaequalitat, which became Fermat's technique of adequality, a pioneering method of infinitesimal calculus?