Pierre de Fermat Gets Doodle on His 410th Birthday

Have you seen Google’s homepage today and wondering what event does it celebrating with a formula on the blackboard as its logo?

It’s actually for French Mathematician Pierre de Fermat‘s 410th birthday!

Born in France in 1601, Fermat is known as a government official and lawyer, and touted as the father of modern number theory.

The formula tweaked by Google’s Doodle team, x^n + y^n = z^n, is known around the world as Fermat’s Last Theorem.

When you Mouse over the Doodle it pulls up a message: “I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this theorem, which this Doodle is too small to contain.”

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