(FIRST) ROME - The public has filled four times in any order placed , Sala Sinopoli of the Auditorium in Rome, the first day of the festival of Mathematics. And many people, mostly children, have been left out and were able to participate in numerous activities planned throughout the day. Sold out for the inauguration ceremony, attended by the Mayor of Rome Walter Veltroni, the Italian Ministry of University and Research Fabio Mussi, the Councillor for Educational Policies and School of the City of Rome, Maria Coscia, the CEO of the Foundation Musica per Roma Carlo Fuortes and Scientific Director of the festival Piergiorgio Odifreddi.
fully booked for the first Lectio magistralis in the program, "Teaching Mathematics" the dean of teachers Italian, Emma Castelnuovo. A long row of thousands of people have articulated in the auditorium to attend the meeting with Andrew Wiles, Fermat's Last Theorem the demonstrator, who gave a keynote on "famous equations, introduced by Piergiorgio Odifreddi. Full house, finally, for the Nobel Prize for Literature Dario For took the stage for the lesson room Sinopoli show "Perspective, foreshortening and science of the theater." From tomorrow on a big screen will also allow the viewers that they should remain outside the rooms, watch live the events of the festival of Mathematics. In presenting the event, the Mayor of Rome Walter Veltroni said: "Voltaire said that there was more imagination in which Archimedes in Homer. This is not a hard science and cold but warm and charming that has to do with the lives of human beings and their extraordinary achievements. With math you learn, you play, you understand the world. In our country there is a long tradition of this discipline that begins and ends by Galileo to the present day, through the extraordinary figure who was a mathematician Renato Caccioppoli. The festival will host high-profile personalities who have honored us with their presence and demonstrating how mathematics can be fascinating. Her relationship with history, music, philosophy, play, and the case is also the charm of the beauty of a subject that goes beyond their limits, which crosses over the boundaries known. "Hundreds have been students who crowded the foyer and all other available spaces of the Parco della Musica to view exhibits and interact with the installations, proposals for the exclusive Festival. The Minister Fabio Mussi has tried to manage an entire virtual orchestra with the simple movement of the body.
The event, sponsored by the City of Rome, produced by the Musica per Roma Foundation in collaboration with the Department of Educational Policies and School of the City of Rome, with the support of Finmeccanica, is held under the patronage of the President Republic, which received an official visit to an authoritative delegation of participants and organizers of the festival, accompanied by Mayor Walter Veltroni. In addition to representatives of the institutions involved, 12 were accepted at the Quirinale excellent mathematicians among them the Nobel Prize for Economics John Nash, Douglas Hofstadter, the Pulitzer Prize, the Fields Medal and Abel Prize Neils Michael Atiyah, in addition to President of the Fondazione Musica per Roma Gianni Borgna and scientific director Piergiorgio Odifreddi. Along with their 10 students from different high schools who work in scientific Romans first person organizing the event. During the morning mathematicians Carlo Bernardini, Lucia Caporaso, Franco Brezzi, Alberto Conte, Angelo Guerraggio and Ennio Peres visited some of the most important Roman high schools. In the program, the following day, Friday, March 16, the keynote of Douglas Hofstadter's Pulitzer Prize and the Fields Medal (the correspondent of the Nobel Prize for mathematics) Alain Connes. In the morning, mathematical games presented by Ennio Peres. In the evening it is expected the film "Death at a Funeral" by Mario Martone, in the presence of the author. At the same time, in-room Petra, the first Italian concert Anthony Braxton, Milford Graves and William Parker. The festival will conclude Sunday, March 18 at 21 with the extraordinary meeting in the Sala Santa Cecilia, which will be the protagonist John Nash, the Nobel Prize for economics that inspired the famous film "A Beautiful Mind." The meeting, coordinated by Pierre Odifreddi, will be broadcast on RaisatExtra (Sky Channel 120) Tuesday, March 19 at 21.
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