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Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Pierre de Fermat, French Mathematician, Pierre-de-Fermat Doodle, 410th Birth Anniversary, Fermat's Last Theorem - YReach.com

Google doodle today honours the birthday of one of the famous personalities 'Pierre de Fermat', who was born on 17th August 1601. He is a French lawyer at the Parliament of Toulouse, France as well as an amateur mathematician who had made huge contributions to analytic geometry, probability and optics. Also his discovery of an original method of finding the greatest and the smallest ordinates of curved lines related to differential calculus and for his research into number theory. At the age of 63 on January 12, 1665, Fermat died at Castres, France... Continue Reading>>>


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