{"id":1276,"date":"2010-12-18T19:18:09","date_gmt":"2010-12-18T23:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mathgradblog.williams.edu\/?p=1276"},"modified":"2010-12-18T19:18:09","modified_gmt":"2010-12-18T23:18:09","slug":"four-mathematicians-enter-how-many-will-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/mathgradblog\/2010\/12\/18\/four-mathematicians-enter-how-many-will-leave\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Mathematicians Enter; How Many Will Leave?!"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Kareem Carr<\/a><\/p>\n

In my undergrad days, we used to have a bad science fiction night. I haven’t seen this movie, but I suspect it would probably fit right in. I was just so amused to learn of a movie about mathematicians that I had to share. The movie industry never gets it quite right, but they tend to be entertaining anyway. (For what it’s worth, I liked ‘A Beautiful Mind’!)<\/p>\n

In the Spanish thriller, Fermat’s Room, four mathematicians who do not know each other are invited by a mysterious host on the pretext of resolving a great enigma. The room in which they find themselves turns out to be a shrinking room that will crush them if they do not discover in time what connects them all and why someone might wish to murder them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

[Hat tip: IO9<\/a>]<\/p>\n

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by Kareem Carr In my undergrad days, we used to have a bad science fiction night. I haven’t seen this movie, but I suspect it would probably fit right in. I was just so amused to learn of a movie … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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