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Sunday afternoon, warm and shiny, was the perfect setting for the last day of MATBaires 09, the maths Festival held in different areas of Centro Cultural Recoleta since last Thursday. The Festival offered a comprehensive programme of popular science, entertainment and everyday use of mathematics in our lives. By closing time, the number of attendees reached 30 thousand.
The past four days witnessed, in total, 13 conferences, a workshop with 3 speakers, 12 open-air shows and the projection of 3 [...]
John Allen Paulos to Close MATbaires 09
“A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper” is the intriguing title of the closing conference of the first edition of MATbaires 09, to be held at 7pm at the Cronopios hall of Centro Cultural Recoleta. The conference will be addressed by American mathematician and populariser John Allen Paulos and presented by film critic Eduardo “Quintín” Antin.
Structured like a newspaper, the conference investigates the mathematical angles of the news. Its title is eponymous with one of the most popular and kudized [...]
“Dr. Strangelove”
A classic by Stanley Kubrick, “Dr. Strangelove” will screen today 3pm at the microcine room of the CCR. The film stars Peter Sellers, playing not one but… three roles!: an army captain, the president of the United States and an advisor to the president.
In the context of the cold war between the United States and the Soviet Union –the film was released in 1964– the film is a satire on the suspicion and paranoia prevailing around the idea of a nuclear war that might bring the world to its demise [...]
Second and Last “Tierra de Maldelbrot”
“Tierra de Mandelbrot”, created and directed by choreographer, dancer and teacher Edgardo Mercado, will be showing again today Sunday 3.30pm at the Villa Villa hall. Tickets are free of charge and can be collected from 3 o’clock at the festival’s meeting point.
The play takes place in a black box completely devoid of extra details, bathed by architectural lighting and a video projection that shapes the space with an abstract design in clean black and white. Three artists, a violinist and two da [...]
On Einstein
Argentinian professor and researcher Alicia Dickenstein will address the conference “Einstein and Mathematics” today, Sunday 2.30pm, at the Cronopios hall of the CCR. She will be reviewing the evolution of the abstract ideas that geometry contributed to the development of the famous theory of relativity left by Einstein to humankind in the twentieth century.
Alicia Dickenstein held the position of director of the department of mathematics of the Faculty of Exact Sciences of the University of Bu [...]
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