On August 17, 1601, the self-taught jurist and mathematician Pierre de Fermat was born in Beaumont-de-Lomagne, France. On the 410th anniversary of his birth, the Google search engine pays tribute to him with a personalized 'doodle' that transforms the Google logo into a mathematical formula . Specifically, it refers to what is known as "Fermat's last theorem", which remained indecipherable until 1995.
Fermat found a conjecture that he wrote in the margin of Diofanto's book Arithmetica : "There are no three integers x, y, z (other than zero) that satisfy the equation x n + y n = z n for n> 2". In a note below he noted: "I have found a wonderful proof so this margin is too narrow to put here." Fermat's proof , whose search has turned subsequent generations of mathematicians, including some as famous as Euler, was never found until it was solved by Andrew Wiles in 1995. Google nods today to this phrase when passing the pointer by the logo dedicated to Fermat reads: "I have discovered a truly wonderful proof for this theorem but this doodle is too small to contain it."
