Massimo Mazzotti
Articles
Foundational Anxieties, Modern Mathematics, and the Political Imagination
Massimo Mazzotti uses a forgotten episode in revolutionary Naples to demonstrate the entanglement of mathematics and politics.
“I Don’t Really Care. Do You?”: Scientists in the Grey Zone in 1930s Italy
Massimo Mazzotti reflects on how Italian scientists failed as a bulwark against fascist politics in the 1930s.
From Genius to Witch: The Rise and Fall of a Filosofessa
On child prodigies, female genius and math...
Algorithmic Life
We need to understand the algorithm to understand our algorithmic lives.
Faking Galileo
From the LARB Quarterly Journal: Spring 2014.
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