From Pythagoras to Godel the recurrent question about numbers is always the same: did they already exist before we discovered them or are they just an invention?
(by Carlo Rovelli)
«Oh, friends, what are these fabulous "numbers" you're dealing with?».
(Plato to the mathematicians, VII book of the "Repubblica".)
Twenty-four centuries after, we're still asking ourselves the same question.
Is Math a science? Is it a philosophy? Or what else? What are the characteristics of the mathematical knowledge, both in the “static” form of set of knowledges structured as an hypothetical-deductive system, and in the “dynamic” form of research for new results? The author tries to catch some elements to answer another question that many people ask themselves: why does someone like Math?
In this article Marco Bramanti, full Professors of Mathematical Analysis at the Politecnico di Milano, tries to give an answer to these questions.
We highly recommend the reading of this book, and we are ready to discuss it with you.
Here’s the new calendar 2015 presented by www.rudimathematici.com
Does a famous scientist share my birth date? Will I follow his career? (by Teacher Fabio Breda)
Who are the best mathematicians? It is hard to say so, there is no chance of establishing a rating of the States with the major number of mathematical minds. It is interesting though to analyze the rating of the countries of the winner mathematicians of the Fields medal, that is the highest honors for mathematicians under 40. It reveals that, out of 53 medals already assigned, the United States won 13, France won 11 and Russia 9. In a short time, in our library, we are going to have Cédric Villani’s book, a French mathematician who works in the field of partial differential equations and mathematical physics, winner of the Fields medal in 2010.
Surfing the Net here and there I found, on www.rudimathematici.com , a calendar with the birthdays of a lot of more and less known scientists. Try to see if someone was born on the same day as you! Maybe it is a sign…
Click here and start your research.
Archimede project site made by:
Razvan Galatanu, Andrea Pizzardo, Leonardo Rebeschini, Pietro Zanin e Luigi Maninchedda.