Google marked what would have been Fermat’s 410th birthday by replacing its logo, known as the Google “doodle,” with the problem that vexed mathematicians for centuries.
In the margin of a book, Fermat wrote that he had found a “truly marvelous proof” to the math puzzle but the margin was too narrow for him to write it out.
When scrolled over with a mouse, the Google doodle echoes Fermat’s famous words saying: “I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this theorem, which this doodle is too small to contain.”
Fermat’s Last Theorem was finally solved by a British mathematician in the 1990s.
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