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Mathematics and Culture VI (Paperback, 1st ed. Softcover of orig. ed. 2009)
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Mathematics and Culture VI (Paperback, 1st ed. Softcover of orig. ed. 2009)
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Dreaming Some years ago, in a corridor, in a small space, o? to the
side, as in a hidden ravine, they were there. Tey couldn't be
anywhere else. Hidden and mysterious, with faces that were dreamy
and abstracted, or distracted, or pensive. Caught up in their
thoughts, caught up in their space, a space that was distant and
that only they could understand. Elusive and yet there, in front of
me. Certainly, it was them, the six mathematicians of the
Mathematica series by Mimmo Paladino. Tinkers of numbers and
shapes. For ten years we have been searching for the mathematicians
there. In Venice, the favourite place. An aura of mystery surrounds
them, otherwise what kind of mathematicians would they be!
Mysterious, dreamy, absent, absorbed are the faces of Paladino's
mathemat- V icians. Te voices of ?ve Sardinian shepherds intone the
Kyrie,the Libera Me Domine, the Sanctus. Insistent, profound,
archaic voices. Te soundtrack of a journey, of a journey towards
nothingness. A journey towards Te Wild Blue Yonder ,the last ?lm by
Werner Herzog, winner of the international Critic's prize at the
Venice f- tival in ????. Te heroes were astronauts, even if by now
no one cares about their
adventures;astronautswhotakeo?,whotravel,butdon'tknowwheretheyaregoing.
And then there are the true heroes, the real gurus of the ?lm, the
characters who some years ago burst onto the scene in cinema: the
mathematicians.
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