Under the title "The beauty of numbers and the numbers of Beauty" will be sought of showing the beauty of mathematics, challenging the prejudices of those who have never loved this area. The Auditorium host lectures, panel discussions, theater performances, chess games, involving a mixture of people ever gathered together in Italy. It is in fact the winners of three Nobel Laureates, two Fields Medal (considered the closest thing to a Nobel Prize for Mathematics), a Pulitzer Prize, an Oscar winner, a world chess champion, and many other personalities who are still waiting for recognition their important contributions.
- Andrew Wiles, author of the proof of Fermat's last theorem
- John Nash, mathematician, Nobel Laureate in Economics, whose life was featured in the film A Beautiful Mind
- Douglas Hofstadter, the Pulitzer Prize in 1980 , author of Gödel, Escher, Bach
- Benoît Mandelbrot, the founder of the theory of fractals
- John Barrow, a physicist, winner of the Templeton Prize for links between religion and science in 2006
- Sir Michael Atiyah, Fields Medal in 1966, former president of the Royal Society and the Pugwash Movement of the Atomic Scientists against
- Alain Connes, Fields Medal in 1983, the author of two volumes of conversations, "Thought and Matter" and "Triangle thoughts "
- Dario For, Nobel Prize for Literature, who will present a lecture-performance;
- Boris Spassky, former world champion of chess that will challenge 15 mathematicians in as many simultaneous games
- Zhores Alferov, Nobel Prize for Physics in 2000
- Mario Martone, director of the movie Death at a Funeral
- Serena Dandini, Elio e le Storie Tese and Nicola Piovani (Oscar) who will present an evening of music.
Michael Atiyah has recently published a book-length interview that is part of the series of Dialogues Di Renzo Editore. The book's title We are all mathematical
Benoit Mandelbrot published always Di Renzo Editore In the world of the book fractals
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