by Piergiorgio Odifreddi · Longanesi · tapa dura · ISBN 9788830422223
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«Il matematico impertinente» is a collection of essays by Piergiorgio Odifreddi, published by Longanesi in hardback (347 pages, in Italian).
Odifreddi brings together essays and articles that range over logic and mathematics and touch on religion, politics, language and literature. Each chapter opens with an imaginary interview with a great historical figure and closes with real conversations with contemporary thinkers, offering the mathematician's critical view of the present and the past.
Second volume in the «Le spade» collection from Longanesi. The recorded edition is the sixth, published in 2005.
For readers interested in mathematical popularisation and essays on ideas, with a taste for critical thinking and a provocative tone.
Piergiorgio Odifreddi is an Italian mathematician, logician, scholar of the history of science, and popular science writer and essayist, especially on philosophical atheism as a member of the Italian Union of Rationalist Atheists and Agnostics. He is philosophically and politically near to Bertrand Russell and Noam Chomsky.
