Google has come up with another excellent doodle, finally something I don’t understand. It commemorates the birthday of Pierre de Fermat (17th August, 1601) a French lawyer and an “amateur mathematician”. I have absolutely no idea what the equation is about, I haven’t done any kind of math for over 12 years now and I need a calculator to do simple equations.
When you hover over the doodle graphic, you will come across this sentence:
“I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this theorem, which this doodle is too small to contain.”
I’m guessing there’s some sort of humour to it though.
Here’s a short Youtube video about it (although it basically just describes the doodle like I have on this blog):
According to some sites, the humour is associated with Pierre’s Last Theorem, you can read more here.
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