Today's Google Doodle is in honor of Fermat's birthday—
"I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this theorem,
which this doodle is too small to contain." — Google's caption
Another marginal remark, from a link target in last night's "Ein Kampf"—
"We are talking about the spatial and temporal phenomenon of language,
not about some non-spatial, non-temporal chimera [Note in margin:
Only it is possible to be interested in a phenomenon in a variety of ways]."
— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations (1953), Section 108
Related material on spatial and temporal phenomena—
A Dec. 29, 2010, comment to a Dec. 26 weblog post on
"Unexpected Connections in Mathematics"—
Connoisseurs of synchronicities in the phenomena of language may note that
these December dates mark the feasts of St. Stephen and St. Thomas Becket.
From the feast of the latter, two Log24 posts: Toy Stories and True Grid.
Those less enchanted by pop math than Google may prefer to observe
two other birthdays today— those of Robert De Niro and of Sean Penn:
