Where there is everything 
Professor Piergiorgio
Odifreddi , is the overwhelming scientific director of
Mathematics Festival 2008 edition entitled "The
queen of the sciences and art."
Professor hopes, so it's sure to be able to see the many people that applications of mathematics
are not boring and that mathematics is mainly found in
science , but also in physical
until '
economy. In fact, just to explain all this, were invited as guests of the most well-known personalities from various disciplines, from Nobel laureate Sheldon Glashow
(Physicist, famous for the unification of the electroweak forces, and Frank Wilczek
, author of the " Quantum electrodynamics "and author of the text
Music vacuum . For the economy but there will be Amartya Sen, and the two genes
John Nash, (to understand what A Beautiful Mind), and Robert Aumann
and
Odifreddi will enjoy with them by making a "chat" with the title "Playing with Mathematics
.
Mathematics is also computer science, and that's the name that sticks out of
Juris Hartmanis who won the prize "
Turing " and he will speak of complexity, then we will go to the art, because they There is math. The film will be screened
Reaching the unreachable, the film about the painter
Maurits Escher, who became famous for its
impossible constructions (the photo above is one of his most famous paintings) .
From cinema, literature as a guest which will see one of the greatest Italian autotent the twentieth century.
Umberto Eco, will explain the uses and abuses of mathematics in the history of numerology. There has forgotten the music and was invited as a witness
Nicola Piovani, Oscar-winning film column for the beautiful "
Life is Beautiful" Roberto Benigni's
. Tell he had a fixation for 7, "the dance of seven veils
", "
the seven gates of Thebes " and what better than a piece of music for seven instruments into seven parts?
But you can also go to the Guinness Book of primates with
Allen Knuthson than on a mathematical theory has built his world record. He can keep ten balls in the air, with mathematics and logic.
The highlight will be the presence of
Freeman Dyson, one of the great minds of the twentieth century a character who has given fundamental contributions to mathematics and physics. He has written on the biggest magazines, including New York Review of Books, wrote the essay "The Sun, the Genome, the Internet," and of course
The importance of being unpredictable .
Well, this year we will try to be more "
friendly" as possible, ie not to pass the math as boring subject studied in force at school.
