"We have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this theorem, which today's tweet is too small to contain," Google tweeted this morning.
Fermat was born in France in 1601 and studied at the University of Toulouse before relocating to Bordeaux in the late 1620s. It was there that he started his serious mathematical research, producing substantial work on maxima and minima. He then moved to the University of Law at Orléans, where he earned his law degree.
"By 1631, Fermat was a lawyer and government official in Toulouse and because of the office he now held he became entitled to change his name from Pierre Fermat to Pierre de Fermat," according to Stetson University.
In time, Fermat was considered to be the founder of the modern number theory. He came up with Fermat's Last Theorem, which states that xn + yn = zn.
"He died in the belief that he had found a relation which every prime number must satisfy, namely 2^(2n) + I = a prime. This was afterwards disproved by Leonhard Euler for the case when n = 5," according to the Notable Names Database (NNDB).
Last month, Google's homepage doodle celebrated what would have been the 189th birthday of scientist Gregor Mendel.
For more on Google's doodles, see the slideshow below. One of the company's last popular doodle was a playable image in honor of musician Les Paul, which eventually got its own standalone site. The search giant also celebrated the year's first total lunar eclipse with a doodle that included a live feed of the event.
Recently, it was revealed that Google obtained a patent for its popular homepage doodles, covering "systems and methods for enticing users to access a Web site."
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