Matilde Marcolli is a mathematician and theoretical physicist, who also works in information theory, mathematical linguistics and mathematical models for neuroscience. She studied theoretical physics at the University of Milano and mathematics and the University of Chicago. She subsequently worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics, the University of Toronto, and the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. She is currently the Robert F. Christy Professor of Mathematics and Computing and Mathematical Sciences at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). She authored six monographs and over 150 research papers in mathematics, physics and applications. She also writes about philosophy, art theory, and anarchism.
Articles
A Bridge and a Sunset
The purpose of this contribution is not to provide a philologically accurate reading of Nietzsche’s writings. That is notoriously a daunting task. What we are going to discuss here is a particular reading of Nietzsche, which inevitably carries its own peculiar type of misinterpretation, a reading that develops within a specific political and philosophical context,… Read More »