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1. Fermat´s
Room
The formula
of an amazing film:
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Maths
Thriller

2. Fermat`s Room
 It is a thriller about
maths, isn´t it amazing?
 It was made in 2007 by
Luis Piedrahita and
Rodrigo Sopeña
 It has a lot of now-
famous spanish actors
and actresses

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8. Famous Mathematicians involved
 Fermat.
 Galois.
 David Hilbert.
 Pascal.
 Oliva Sabuco.

9. Evariste Galois
“Unfortunately what is little
recognized is that the most
worthwhile scientific books are
those in which the author
clearly indicates what he does
not know; for an author most
hurts his readers by concealing
difficulties.”

10. Biography
• Born: 25 October 1811,
Bourg-La-Reine.
• Died: 31 May 1832, Paris.

11. Final days
• He died in a duel
• he was shot in
the abdomen,
abandoned by his
opponents.
• He stayed up all night
writing letters to his
republicans friends and
to his lover.

12. theory
• Relationship to describe how the roots
of a polynomial relate to one and
another.
• There is no general algebraic method for
solving polynomial equations of any
degree greater than four

13. Life
• 1823 entered Lycèe Lois le Grand
• Interest in maths at 14 years
• 1828 Ècole normal

14. His father
• Was a Republican
• Was head of Bourg-la-Reine‘s liberal party
• He became mayor of the village
• committed suicide after a bitter political dispute with
the village priest

15. In the film...
The actor who plays galois is Alejo Sauras.

16. David Hilbert
“A mathematical theory is not to be
considered complete until you have
made it so clear that you can explain
it to the first man whom you meet on
the street.”

17. Biography
 Hilbert (23 January 1862 – 14
February 1943, 81 years old)
was born in Königsberg (Prusia)
what today would be Kaliningrad
(Rusia) and died in Gottingen
(Germany)
 He studied at Könisberg
university, where he obtained his
doctorate in 1885
 Then, he became professor in
the university of Gottingen,
which was the most important
center of mathematical research
at that time.

18. Contributions to mathematics
 The theory of invariants.
 The axiomatization of
geometry.
 Hilbert´s program.

19. Curiosities
The city he was born in, Königsberg,
was a place of high intellectual
contribution to the world. It was
Kant´s birthplace and also there
was an important school of
physics.
At university, he met a lot of amazing
people influenced his work,
people such as: Riemann,
Hurwitz, Gauss and a lot more.

20. Bridges of Konigsberg

21. Character in Fermat´s Room
His character in the movie
is played by Lluis Homar,
who is a well known actor
in both cinema and
theatre worlds.
He also played in the
movie: ``The Pelayos´´
which involves maths too.

22. Blaise Pascal
“In faith there is enough light
for those who want to believe
and enough shadows to blind
those who don’t”

23. Biography
Born 19 June 1623; Clermont-Ferrand, France.
Died 19 August 1662 (39); Paris, France.
Mathematician, physicist, inventor and philosopher.
He entered to the mathematics’ world at a very early age.

24. Contribution to mathematics
Pascal’s Triangle
● It consists of a
representation of the
binomial coefficients
forming a triangle.
● It’s named after
Pascal although other
mathematicians had
already studied it in
India, Persia and
China.

25. Pascal’s Principle
Principle of transmission of fluid-pressure
or Pascal’s law

26. Pascal’s Calculator
● It was called The Arithmetic
Calculator and later it
became the Pascaline.
● Pascal designed the
machine in 1642, after 50
prototypes.
● He designed the machine to
add and subtract two
numbers directly and to
perform multiplication and
division through repeated
addition or subtraction.

27. Curiosities
Pascal made the Pascaline to help his father
with his work, who was a tax collector.
○ After his death, an autopsy, revealed that Pascal
suffered from tuberculosis, stomach cancer, or a
combination of both, he also had several injuries
on his brain.
He created the Theory of Probability with
Fermat.

28. In the film...
a man called Pascal receives a letter with a math puzzle.
When he solves it, he is told to arrive at a specific place and
time.
The actor who plays Pascal is Santi Millán.

29. OLIVA
SABUCO
" In the loneliness there is
situated what often gets lost
in the conversation "

30. Biography.
 Oliva Sabuco was born on December 2, 1562
in Albacete (Spain) and she died in 1645, 83
years old.
 Her father worked as apothecary.
 She studied in Albacete when she was a
child. Later she learnt Biology and Botany
with her father´s help.

31. Contribution to the mathematics.
 Her most important work
was: New Philosophy of
Nature of human being,
published in 1587.

32.  It was formed by five agreements:
 Two of them scientific – philosophical and the
others about medicine.
 In it, Oliva argues that the main trouble with
Medicine, is its detachment from Philosophy,
and its ignorance of the disposition of human
nature .

33. Curiosities.
 In the will of her father, he declares equally to
be the author of the " New Philosophy " where
it puts for authoress Oliva, his daughter, " only
for giving the name and the honor “.
 Nowadays it is not known by certainty who is
the author of the book.

34. Character in the film.
 The actress who plays Oliva Sabuco in the
movie “Fermat’s room” is Elena Ballesteros.