The Da Vinci Code – A Talk By Piergiorgio Odifreddi

"The Da Vinci Code" is just the last chapter of the secular path which led to the association of the figure of Leonardo to words like ‘genius’, ‘superlative intellect’ and ‘visionary’: a journey celebrated around the world this year on the occasion of the five hundredth anniversary of his death. There are no doubts Da Vinci was a great artist, however a mediocre scientist and a bad mathematician.

Piergiorgio Odifreddi, born in Cuneo in 1950, is an Italian mathematician and logician, extremely active also as a popular science writer and essayist. His most influential popular books are Le menzogne di Ulisse (Ulysses' Lies, 2004), C’è spazio per tutti (There’s room for everyone, 2010) and Il museo dei numeri (The museum of numbers, 2013).

Event organised in collaboration with IIC Sydney.