Piergiorgio Odifreddi
Piergiorgio Odifreddi (born July 13, 1950 in Cuneo , Piedmont ) is an Italian mathematician , logician and historian of science . He is known to the general public as an author and essayist who takes a critical look at the tension between science and religion .
Odifreddi studied in Turin and taught in Italy and the United States, where he worked in the field of predictability theory .
He dealt critically with Antonino Zichichi . Odifreddi is a committed speaker and is often compared to Richard Dawkins because of his ideas . His book Il Vangelo secondo la scienza (in German "The Gospel viewed scientifically") is a bestseller.
Publications
- Classical recursion Theory , North Holland - Elsevier , 1988, ISBN 9780080886596 ; 2nd edn. 1992, ISBN 0-444-89483-7
- Classical recursion theory. Volume II , North Holland - Elsevier, 1999
Web links
Commons : Piergiorgio Odifreddi - collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.deutschlandfunk.de/atheismus-der-feind-fehlt.886.de.html?dram:article_id=357710
- ↑ Shoenfield, JR: Review: Classical recursion theory by P. Odifreddi . In: Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. (NS) . 28, No. 1, 1993, pp. 182-183. doi : 10.1090 / s0273-0979-1993-00346-x .
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SURNAME | Odifreddi, Piergiorgio |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian mathematician, logician and historian of science |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 13, 1950 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Cuneo , Piedmont |