What's in a name? Sometimes a lot. With a little thought, you
can usually use the letters of a name as a self-descriptive
acronym. There are some famous acronyms for cars: This month's
contest is to do the same thing for mathematicians. For example,
Carl Friedrich Gauss is considered to be one of the top
mathematicians of all time. When he was a child, he reportedly
added the numbers from 1 to 100 in a few seconds, by considering
the 50 sums 1+100, 2+99, . . . 49+50 that each add to 101.
Therefore a fitting acronym for Gauss would be: Pierre de Fermat
is most famous for conjecturing what is now called Fermat's Last
Theorem: that the equation an + bn = cn has no integer solutions
when a,b,c > 0 and n > 2. He wrote in the margin "I have
discovered a truly remarkable proof which this margin is too
small to contain." This remained the most famous unsolved
problem in mathematics for hundreds of years, until it was
finally proved by Andrew Wiles in 1994. For Fermat, our acronym
is: Giuseppe Peano is most famous for