Google Doodle today : Fermat and his Last Theoremįermat boasted by adding in Latin that he had no room to write his discovered proof for the theorem. Google also embedded a hidden message in Fermat’s Doodle: “I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this theorem, which this doodle is too small to contain.” Clicking the chalkboard image with initiate the search term “Pierre de Fermat.”įermat is an amateur mathematician who made contributions to analytic geometry, probability and optics, as well as his smallest ordinates discovery that is related to differential calculus. The California based company and search engine giant Google also nods playfully to the conditions of “Fermat’s Last Theorem,” (pictured on the Doodle’s chalkboard) - which the Frenchman so notably proposed about 1637 by scribbling in his copy of the ancient Greek text Arithmetica by Diophantus. Google Doodle today : Fermat and his Last Theorem Google’s latest logo doodle celebrates the 410th anniversary of the birthday of French mathematician and lawyer Pierre de Fermat on August 17th with a chalkboard with mathematical equation, symbols, and an erased Google logo.

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