PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

Degree in mathematics University of Rome "La Sapienza", 1970. From 1987full professor in mathematics at the university of Sassari, Viterbo,Venezia Ca' Foscari and Rome "La Sapienza". Visiting researcher at ParisSud, Orsay, Princeton, Barcelona, Campinas (Brasil)

MEMBERSHIP

UMI, Unione Matematica Italiana; AMS, American Math Society; EMS, EuropeanMath Society; ASA, American Society for Aesthetics; Media in Science;SLS, Society for Literature and Science

Member of theeditorial board of Leonardo, MIT press; reviews for Zentralblatt forMathematik; LEA, electronic Bulletin & others.

Collaborator of the page of science and culture of L'UNITA' since 1986Co-founder of the electronic journal via Internet "Galileo", 1996: www.galileo.webzone.it

Filmmaker of the series "Art and Mathematics"; organizer of the annual congress "Mathematics and Culture" in Venice. Editorof the series of books Mathematics and Culture, Springer, and The Visual Mind, MIT Press.

Recent books: "Visibili armonie: arte cinema teatro matematica", Bollati Boringhieri, 2007; "Flatland" by E. Abbott, including the DVD , Bollati Boringhieri, 2008; "Mathematics and Culture VI" Springer, 2009; "Bolle di sapone tra arte e matematica", Bollati Boringhieri, 2009.