He's a celebrity in the academic world, a professor of Logic at the University of Turin, a best-selling author, an essayist, a refined and unpredictable popularizer, a media personality, and an exceptional storyteller. In a nutshell: Piergiorgio Odifreddi .
Italy's most "impertinent" mathematician will be in Sassari on May 26th for an event that promises to blur the lines between logical rigor and artistic creativity, exploring the age-old bond between the abstraction of numbers and the harmony of notes.
The event is scheduled for 8:30 pm at the Teatro Verdi , where the genius of Odifreddi will unleash his talents in presenting "Bach, Webern and Numbers, Between Music and Mathematics," a dialogue between science and art born from the invaluable collaboration with Sardinian pianist and composer Claudio Sanna . Originally from Ossi, Sanna is internationally renowned for his talent, expressive ability, and unconventional virtuosity.
Odifreddi will lead the audience on a journey through time, beginning with the ancient Greeks and Pythagoras's insight into the relationship between sounds and numbers (proportion), exploring Bach, Haydn, and Mozart, and taking spectators all the way to the 20th-century avant-garde and contemporary music, touching on the research of Schoenberg and, in particular, Anton Webern.
The event is organized by the Circolo Musicale Laborintus. For more information, please call 349/8024059.
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