Mathematician and science communicator Piergiorgio Odifreddi is in Australia for a cycle of conferences on the great Leonardo Da Vinci.
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.
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