This year marks the 500th anniversary of Leonardo Da Vinci’s death and the legendary figure is being celebrated across the world as a ‘genius’ and a ‘visionary’.
Mathematician and science communicator Piergiorgio Odifreddi has arrived Down Under for a cycle of conferences and will argue that, while there are no doubts that Da Vinci was a great artist, he was a mediocre scientist and a bad mathematician.
Odifreddi tells SBS Italian who Leonardo really was.
