Talk:Fermat's Room

Enigmas
So we have a lis of the enigmas. Where can we find the answers ? -- Beardo (talk) 03:56, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

in the movie.... --92.225.49.85 (talk) 09:48, 4 June 2011 (UTC)

Influences of the Movie
To me, this movie is directly influenced in style, story, and genre by The Cube, but nothing of that is mentioned. There are too common elements to just be a coincidences. Could somebody investigate this?

Links
The link of the movie's original site does work. It directs to a place where the movie website is not longer hosted. It would be better to remove it or just to mention date of retrieval.

7 October 2018 plot reversion
I just made a major reversion of the plot summary, which has been flagged as "too long or excessively detailed" since 30 September 2015. On 27 April 2016, I slashed the plot down to 785 words, the idea being that someone else proceed to shorten or streamline it further. Instead on 15 October 2017‎ anon 49.145.126.105 and on 21 April 2018‎ user Jhornacek made additions to the already too long summary, increasing its length to 1195 words. What do you not understand about something being TOO LONG OR EXCESSIVELY DETAILED? The summary needs to be shorter, not longer. If something has been glossed over, it's because the policy of 400-700 word plot summaries prevents a more detailed exploration. If there are inaccuracies, please correct them, but if your correction exceeds the length of what it's replacing, then you must cut the summary somewhere else. It's not brain surgery, folks. Plot summaries may be 400-700 words in length. There is practically no article subject with a plot that needs more space than this to give a clear and concise summary of its main points.

And Jhornacek, thanks for catching the omission of the actor playing Hilbert. That deletion was the result of extensive vandalism by anon 66.251.21.182 on 28 March 2018‎. That IP has been repeatedly warned to stop making unconstructive edits, with apparently little success. Canonblack (talk) 23:03, 7 October 2018 (UTC)

Oliva Sabuco or another Oliva?
(I have not seen this film, I’ve only read this article). Is Oliva Sabuco the correct namesake for Oliva’s alias?

The ages don’t seem to match up. Oliva Sabuco, according to her Wikipedia page, died around age 84. The actress playing the character Oliva in this film was 26. The characters discover that the namesakes of their aliases died at the same ages the characters are now (except Hilbert). In the case of Oliva there seems to be a discrepancy of 60 years!

Furthermore, Oliva Sabuco, again according to her Wikipedia page, seems to be a philosopher but not a mathematician.

Is there another mathematician named Oliva who could have been the character’s namesake? I couldn’t find one in a few moments of searching either Wikipedia or the wider Web.


 * No, it's that one. My recollection is that there's a mathematical work that was attributed to her but probably in error and done many years after the fact.  To some extent you could argue there's the fictional Sabuco and the vaguely related real one.  See es:Oliva_Sabuco, but no guarantees as to the accuracy or slant of that article - it's apparently controversial.  SnowFire (talk) 00:06, 23 September 2020 (UTC)