[ size = 5 ] [ color = # 8b0000 ] 1 . [ / color ] [ / size ] [ / b ] first put forward by the french mathematician pierre de format in the seventeenth century , the theorem had baffled and beaten the finest mathematical minds , including a french woman scientist who made a major advance in working out the problem , and who had to dress like a man in order to be able to study at the ecolab polytechnique 这个定理，先是由十七世纪法国数学家皮尔法特提出，曾使一批杰出的数学大师为难，包括一位法国女科学家，她在解决这个难题方面取得了重大的进展，她曾女扮男装为了能够在伊科尔理工学院学习。
