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Stranger than Fiction/

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Stranger than Fiction

Theatrical film poster

Directed by Marc Forster
Produced by Lindsay Doran
Written by Zach Helm
Starring Will Ferrell
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Dustin Hoffman
Queen Latifah
Emma Thompson

Music by Brian Reitzell

Britt Daniel
Cinematography Roberto Schaefer
Editing by Matt Chesse
Studio Mandate Pictures
Distributed by Columbia Pictures
Release dates •November 10, 2006
Running time 113 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $30 million[1]
Box office $53,653,224
 Punctul de plecare al filmului
The film's title derives from a quote by Mark Twain

• "Truth is stranger than

fiction, but it is because
Fiction is obliged to
stick to possibilities;
Truth isn't."
Primul proiect: Disociatul/ Intre doua identitati
In 2001, writer Zach Helm was working with
producer Lindsay Doran on a project they called
"The Disassociate."

• Helm came to Doran with a new idea involving a man who

finds himself accompanied by a narrator that only he can hear.
• Helm next decided that the narrator should state that the man
is going to die since, as Helm described, "There's something
very poetic about the understanding of one's place in the
universe, but it's far more dramatic when such understanding
occurs only days before that life ends."
 Al doilea proiect: Proiectul naratorului
Helm and Doran began referring to the new project as "The
Narrator Project"

• They developed the story through a process of

Helm bringing ideas and Doran asking
questions.
Cum au fost alese numele personajelor?

• Helm named each of the film's chief

characters after a famous scientist: Crick,
Pascal, Eiffel, Escher, and Hilbert.
 HAROLD CRICK
• Francis Harry Compton Crick, 
•  (8 June 1916 – 28 July 2004)
• was an English molecular
biologist, biophysicist,
and neuroscientist, most noted for
being a co-discoverer of the structure
of the DNA molecule in 1953
with James Watson.
• He, Watson, and Maurice Wilkins were
jointly awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize
for Physiology or Medicine "for their
discoveries concerning the molecular
structure of nucleic acids and its
significance for information transfer in
living material"
 Ana Pascal
• BLAISE PASCAL
• 19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662
• French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Christian
philosopher.
• He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a tax
collector in Rouen.
• Pascal's earliest work was in the natural and applied sciences
where he made important contributions to the study of fluids, and
clarified the concepts of pressure and vacuum by generalizing the
work of Evangelista Torricelli.
• Pascal also wrote in defense of the scientific method.
• In 1642, while still a teenager, he started some pioneering work
on calculating machines. After three years of effort and fifty
prototypes, he invented the mechanical calculator.[He built 20 of
these machines (called Pascal's calculators and later Pascalines) in
the following ten years.
• Pascal was an important mathematician, helping create two
major new areas of research: he wrote a significant treatise on the
subject of projective geometry at the age of 16, and later
corresponded with Pierre de Fermat on probability theory,
strongly influencing the development of modern economics and
social science.
• Following Galileo and Torricelli, in 1646 he refuted Aristotle's
followers who insisted that nature abhors a vacuum.
• Pascal's results caused many disputes before
being accepted.
 Karen Eiffel
• Alexandre Gustave Eiffel
• 15 Dec. 1832 – 27 Dec. 1923
• French civil engineer and architect.
• A graduate of the École Centrale des Arts
et Manufactures, he made his name with
various bridges for the French railway
network, most famously the Garabit
viaduct.
• He is best known for the world-famous
Eiffel Tower, built for the 1889 Universal
Exposition in Paris, France.
• After his retirement from engineering,
Eiffel concentrated his energies on
research into meteorology and
aerodynamics, making important
contributions in both fields.
 Penny Escher
• Maurits Cornelis Escher
• 17 June 1898 – 27 March
1972),
• Dutch graphic artist
• He is known for his often
mathematically inspired
woodcuts, lithographs, and
mezzotints.
• These feature impossible
constructions, explorations of
infinity, architecture, and
tessellations.
 Professor Jules Hilbert
• David Hilbert
• January 23, 1862 – February 14, 1943)
• German mathematician.
• He is recognized as one of the most influential and
universal mathematicians of the 19th and early 20th
centuries.
• Hilbert discovered and developed a broad range of
fundamental ideas in many areas, including invariant
theory and the axiomatization of geometry.
• He also formulated the theory of Hilbert spaces,[3] one of
the foundations of functional analysis.
• Hilbert adopted and warmly defended Georg Cantor's set
theory and transfinite numbers. A famous example of his
leadership in mathematics is his 1900 presentation of a
collection of problems that set the course for much of the
mathematical research of the 20th century.
• Hilbert and his students contributed significantly to
establishing rigor and developed important tools used in
modern mathematical physics.
• Hilbert is known as one of the founders of proof theory and
mathematical logic, as well as for being among the first to
distinguish between mathematics and metamathematics.
Cele 23 de intrebari ale prof. Jules Hilbert trimit la cele
23 de probleme create de matematicianul Hilbert

• When the character of Dr. Hilbert tells Harold

that he has devised a series of 23 questions in
order to investigate the narrator, it is a playful
reference to Hilbert's 23 problems.
 Hilbert's twenty-three problems are:
Year
Problem Brief explanation Status
Solved

1 !Resolved. Proven to be
impossible to prove or disprove
within the Zermelo–Fraenkel
set theory with or without the
The continuum hypothesis (that is, Axiom of Choice (provided the
Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory with
there is no set whose cardinality is
1st strictly between that of the or without the Axiom of Choice is 1963
consistent, i.e., contains no two
integers and that of the theorems such that one is a
real numbers)
negation of the other). There is
general consensus that this solves
the problem, although there have
been proposals which would give a
definitive truth value (see Ω-logic).
 2 !There is no consensus on whether results of Gödel and
Gentzen give a solution to the problem as stated by Hilbert.
Gödel's second incompleteness theorem, proved in 1931,
2nd Prove that the axioms of shows that no proof of its consistency can be carried out 1936?
arithmetic are consistent. within arithmetic itself. Gentzen proved in 1936 that the
consistency of arithmetic follows from the well-foundedness
of the ordinal ε₀.

Given any two polyhedra of

equal volume, is it always
possible to cut the first into
3rd finitely many polyhedral 1 !Resolved. Result: no, proved using Dehn invariants. 1900
pieces which can be
reassembled to yield the
second?
4th Construct all metrics where lines are geodesics. 4 !Too vague to be stated resolved or not. [n 1] –

2 !Resolved by Andrew Gleason, depending on how the

original statement is interpreted. If, however, it is
5th Are continuous groups automatically differential groups? 1953?
understood as an equivalent of the
Hilbert–Smith conjecture, it is still unsolved.

2 !Partially resolved depending on how the original

statement is interpreted.[13] In particular, in a further
explanation Hilbert proposed two specific problems: (i)
axiomatic treatment of probability with limit theorems
for foundation of statistical physics and (ii) the rigorous
6th Mathematical treatment of the axioms of physics theory of limiting processes "which lead from the 1933-2002?
atomistic view to the laws of motion of continua".
Kolmogorov’s axiomatics (1933) is now accepted as
standard. There is some success on the way from the
"atomistic view to the laws of motion of continua". [14]
7th Is a b transcendental, for algebraic a ≠ 0,1 and irrational 1 !Resolved. Result: yes, illustrated by 1935
algebraic b ? Gelfond's theorem or the Gelfond–Schneider theorem.

The Riemann hypothesis ("the real part of any non-trivial

zero of the Riemann zeta function is ½") and other prime
8th number problems, among them Goldbach's conjecture and 3 !Unresolved. –
the twin prime conjecture

Find the most general law of the reciprocity theorem in

9th 2 !Partially resolved.[n 2] –
any algebraic number field.

Find an algorithm to determine whether a given

10th polynomial Diophantine equation with integer coefficients 1 !Resolved. Result: impossible, Matiyasevich's theorem 1970
implies that there is no such algorithm.
has an integer solution.

Solving quadratic forms with algebraic numerical

11th 2 !Partially resolved.[citation needed] –
coefficients.

Extend the Kronecker–Weber theorem on abelian

12th extensions of the rational numbers to any base number 3 !Unresolved. –
field.

13th Solve 7-th degree equation using continuous functions of 2 !The problem was partially solved by Vladimir Arnold 1957
two parameters. based on work by Andrei Kolmogorov. [n 4]

14th Is the ring of invariants of an algebraic group acting on a 1 !Resolved. Result: no, counterexample was 1959
polynomial ring always finitely generated? constructed by Masayoshi Nagata.
15th Rigorous foundation of Schubert's enumerative calculus. 2 !Partially resolved.[citation needed] –

Describe relative positions of ovals originating from a real

16th algebraic curve and as limit cycles of a polynomial vector field on 3 !Unresolved. –
the plane.

Express a nonnegative rational function as quotient of sums of 1 !Resolved. Result: yes, due to Emil Artin. Moreover, an
17th upper limit was established for the number of square 1927
squares.
terms necessary.[citation needed]

1 !(a) Resolved. Result: yes (by Karl Reinhardt).

(a) Is there a polyhedron which admits only an anisohedral tiling (b) Widely believed to be resolved, by
18th in three dimensions? computer-assisted proof (by Thomas Callister Hales). 1928 !(a) 1928
Result: Highest density achieved by close packings, each (b) 1998
(b) What is the densest sphere packing?
with density approximately 74%, such as cubic close
packing and hexagonal close packing.[n 5][citation needed]

Are the solutions of regular problems in the calculus of variations 1 !Resolved. Result: yes, proven by Ennio de Giorgi and,
19th independently and using different methods, by 1957
always necessarily analytic?
John Forbes Nash.

Do all variational problems with certain boundary conditions 1 !Resolved. A significant topic of research throughout the
20th 20th century, culminating in solutions[citation needed] for the  ?
have solutions?
non-linear case.

Proof of the existence of linear differential equations having a 1 !Resolved. Result: Yes or no, depending on more exact  ?
21st
prescribed monodromic group formulations of the problem.[citation needed]

Uniformization of analytic relations by means of

22nd 1 !Resolved.[citation needed]  ?
automorphic functions

23rd Further development of the calculus of variations 3 !Unresolved. –

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