Piergiorgio Odifreddi

Piergiorgio Odifreddi

Piergiorgio Odifreddi (born July 13 1950), is an Italian mathematician, logician and aficionado of the history of science, who is also extremely active as a popular science writer and essayist.

Born in Cuneo (Piedmont), he received his Laurea in mathematics in Turin in 1973. From 1983 to 2002, he taught in both Italy (Turin, Alessandria, Siena, Milan) and in the United States (Cornell University). Since 2001, he has been a professor of mathematical logic in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Turin.

He has written editorials and books reviews for "La rivista dei libri" (the Italian edition of the New York Review of Books), is a regular contributor to "Le Scienze" (the Italian edition of Scientific American), and has also written for several newspapers such as La Repubblica, La Stampa and the weekly L'Espresso. The television stations "Radio Tre", "RAI Due" and "RAI Tre" have hosted many of his discussions on various scientific topics.

Piergiorgio Odifreddi participated in the Stock Exchange of Visions project in 2007.

Honors

*1998 - Galileo Prize of the "Italian Mathematical Union".
*2002 - Peano Prize of Mathesis
*2005 - Commendatore dell'Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana

Works

Academic writings

*"Classical recursion Theory", North Holland - Elsevier, 1988
*"Classical recursion Theory. Volume II", North Holland - Elsevier, 1999

Popular writings

*"Il Vangelo secondo la Scienza", Einaudi, 1999, ISBN 88-06-14930-X (The Gospel According to Science)
*"La matematica del '900", prefazione di Gian-Carlo Rota, Einaudi, 2000, ISBN 88-06-15153-3 (The Mathematics of the 20th Century)
*"Il computer di Dio", Cortina, 2000, ISBN 88-7078-663-3 (God's Computer)
*"C'era una volta un paradosso", Einaudi, 2001, ISBN 88-06-15090-1 (Once upon a time there was a paradox)
*"La repubblica dei numeri", Cortina, 2002, ISBN 88-7078-776-1 (The Republic of Numbers)
*"Zichicche", Dedalo, 2003, ISBN 88-220-6260-4
*"Il diavolo in cattedra. La logica matematica da Aristotele a Kurt Gödel", Einaudi, 2003, ISBN 88-06-16721-9 (The Devil in the Professor's Chair: Mathematical Logic from Aristotle to Kurt Goedel)
*"Divertimento geometrico - Da Euclide ad David Hilbert", Bollati Boringhieri, 2003, ISBN 88-339-5714-4 (Geometric Diversions - From Euclid to Hilbert)
*"Le menzogne di Ulisse. L'avventura della logica da Parmenide ad Amartya Sen", Longanesi, 2004, ISBN 88-304-2044-1 (Ulysses' Lies. The Adventure of Logic from Parmenides to Amartya Sen)
*"Il matematico impertinente", Longanesi, 2005, ISBN 88-304-2222-3 (The Impertinent Mathematician)
*"Penna, pennello, bacchetta: le tre invidie del matematico", Laterza, 2005, ISBN 88-420-7643-0 (Pen, brush, baton: the three jealousies of the mathematician)
*"Idee per diventare matematico", Zanichelli, 2005, ISBN 88-08-07063-8 (Ideas for becoming a mathematician)
* "Incontri con menti straordinarie", Longanesi, 2006, ISBN 8830423467 (Meetings with extraordinary minds)
* "Che cos'è la logica?", Luca Sossella editore, 2006, ISBN 8889829192 (What is logic?)
* "La scienza espresso: Note brevi, semibrevi e minime per una biblioteca scientifica universale", Einaudi, 2006, ISBN 9788806182588 (Science express)
*"Perché non possiamo essere cristiani (e meno che mai cattolici)", Longanesi, 2007, ISBN 978-88-304-2427-2 (Why we cannot be Christians (much less catholics))

See also

*Antonino Zichichi
*CICAP

External links

* [http://www.vialattea.net/odifreddi/ Piergiorgio Odifreddi's home page]
* [http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/recursive-functions/ Article by Odifreddi on Recursive Functions in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
* [http://gisrael.blogspot.com/2007/03/odifreddi-promette-se-fosse-in-iran.html The "Odifreddi promette: se fosse in Iran, spernacchierebbe l’islam. Mandiamocelo" blog by mathematician Giorgio Israel in Italian]


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