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A Portrait of the Mathematical Tribe

In: Imagine Math 7

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  • Marco LiCalzi

    (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Department of Management)

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In 2009, the photographer Marianna Cook published a fascinating collection of 92 photographic portraits of mathematicians. Her single-page preface to the book exudes the same insight and sensibility that animate her pictures. The first sentence, presumably written after having met and photographed so many of them, claims that “mathematicians […] may look like the rest of us, but they are not the same.” If the external appearance is the same, the differences must be somewhere else: here we sketch a (verbal) portrait of what makes them a distinct tribe.

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  • Marco LiCalzi, 2020. "A Portrait of the Mathematical Tribe," Springer Books, in: Michele Emmer & Marco Abate (ed.), Imagine Math 7, pages 313-331, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-030-42653-8_19
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-42653-8_19
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