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unusual facts about Fermat's Room


Hydraulic press

The room featured in Fermat's Room has a design similar to that of a hydraulic press.


Aleksandr Khazanov

He attended Stuyvesant High School, and was named a finalist and eventually placed 7th at the 54th Westinghouse Science Talent Search for a paper dealing with a variance of Fermat's Last Theorem.

Alfred Weber

As for the Weber triangle problem, which is a generalization of the Fermat triangle problem, it was first formulated by Thomas Simpson in 1750, and popularized by Alfred Weber in 1909.

Amir Aczel

His book, Fermat's Last Theorem (ISBN 978-1-56858-077-7), was a United States bestseller and was nominated for a Los Angeles Times Book Prize.

Ann Oakley

Ann Oakley has written numerous academic works, many focusing on the lives and roles of women in society as well as several best-selling novels, of which the best-known is probably The Men's Room, which was adapted by Laura Lamson for BBC television in 1991, and which starred Harriet Walter and Bill Nighy.

Claybury Hospital

In Rodinsky's Room, a book by Iain Sinclair and Rachel Lichtenstein about David Rodinsky, they mark the tower at L. C. C. Claybury Mental Hospital, as the "fixed compass-point from which Rodinsky drew his circuits of London. All his maps were based on that sightline" (Dark Lanthorns 32).

Dave's Room

Many popular engineers and producers frequently use Dave's Room, including Jack Joseph Puig, T Bone Burnett, Alan Parsons (who recorded the very first Alan Parsons Project sessions at the studio), Brown Bannister, Burt Bacharach, Larry Norman and many others.

Edward Atienza

Edward Atienza made his professional stage debut in the role of the Butler in a 1949 production of Up in Mabel's Room.

Fermat point

This question was proposed by Fermat, as a challenge to Evangelista Torricelli.

Fermat–Weber problem

Weber problem, the problem of finding a point minimizing the sum of weighted distances from given (point, weight) pairs

Geometric median, the problem of finding a point minimizing the sum of distances from given points

Fermat's principle

Ibn al-Haytham (Alhacen), in his Book of Optics (1021), expanded the principle to both reflection and refraction, and expressed an early version of the principle of least time.

Fermat's theorem

The works of 17th century mathematician Pierre de Fermat engendered many theorems.

Fermat polygonal number theorem, about expressing integers as a sum of polygonal numbers

General Amherst High School

GAHS has been recognized for a number of causes, including (but not limited to): the Canadian record of per capita student contributions in donations to the Canadian Cancer Society, championships in football, hockey, basketball, track & field, wrestling, tennis, cross country and volleyball; the recipient of several Essex County "Student Prime Minister of the Year" awards (2004, 2005, & 2009) and high rankings in the University of Waterloo Fermat Mathematics competition.

Giovanni's Room

She is from Minneapolis and moved to Paris to study painting, until she threw in the towel and met David by serendipity.

David, a young American man whose girlfriend has gone off to Spain to contemplate marriage, is left alone in Paris and begins an affair with an Italian man, Giovanni.

David remembers his first experience with a boy, Joey, who lived in Brooklyn.

In Vanda's Room

No Quarto da Vanda is a kind of sequel to the drama film Ossos (1997) in which Vanda Duarte plays as an actress.

Jacob's Room

The work is seen as an important modernist text; its experimental form is viewed as a progression of the innovative writing style Woolf presented in her earlier collection of short fiction titled Monday or Tuesday (1919).

Out of the Blue Enterprises

The company serves as the producers (with DHX Media's Decode Entertainment unit) of the CGI-animated children's television show Super Why! that airs on most PBS stations and on Kids' CBC in Canada and Blue's Room which formerly aired on Nick Jr..

Principle of least action

The speculative fiction writer, Ted Chiang, has a story, Story of Your Life, that contains visual depictions of Fermat's Principle along with a discussion of its teleological dimension.

Rachel Lichtenstein

In 1999 she wrote Rodinsky's Room with Iain Sinclair, and since then she has published Rodinsky's Whitechapel (1999) and On Brick Lane (2007).

Richard Dedekind

Ideals generalize Ernst Eduard Kummer's ideal numbers, devised as part of Kummer's 1843 attempt to prove Fermat's Last Theorem.

Robert F. Coleman

The title of his thesis was Division Values in Local Fields, and it was later cited in Andrew Wiles's final paper presenting the proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.

Story of Your Life

The phenomenon of Heptapod B is explained by the alien's understanding of mathematics and Fermat's principle of least time.

The Return of the Soldier

This distance is very similar to the distance from war and its trauma in Virginia Woolf's Jacob's Room.

Vice President's Room

In 1919 Vice President Thomas Marshall signed the constitutional amendment bill that would grant nationwide suffrage to women once ratified by the states.

Six years later, following President James Garfield’s assassination, Vice President Chester Arthur took the presidential oath of office here with two former presidents, Ulysses S. Grant and Rutherford B. Hayes, among those attending the ceremony.

In 1885, the Senate voted to place a marble bust of Henry Wilson in the Vice President’s Room, to honor one of the Senate’s most popular presiding officers.

In 1875 Henry Wilson, Ulysses S. Grant’s vice president, died in the room after suffering a stroke.

John Breckinridge of Kentucky was the first to occupy the new Vice President’s Room (S–214), after he gavelled the Senate into session in its

On April 12, 1945, Vice President Harry S. Truman was on the House side of the Capitol when he received a telephone call informing him to come immediately to the White House.


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