Archimedes, the Art of Measurement (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783032268686)

Professor of Geometry at the University of Trento, he is a scholar in the field of Projective Algebraic Geometry. Currently Director of the International Center for Mathematical Research (CIRM) in Trento. He has been a visiting professor at many international research centers, including the Max Planck Institute (Bonn, DE), the Newton Institute for Math. (Cambridge, UK), and the Math.Sc. Research Institute (Berkley, US). He is the President of the Italian Mathematical Society (UMI). Since several years, he is working in the field of scientific popularization, writing historical and popular books (among these, the present one, "Archimedes, the Art of Measurement" and "The Shape of Everything, the Alphabet of Geometry" - Springer ). He was President of MUSE, the science museum designed by Renzo Piano, during its creation and for eight years. He is member of the Academy of Science in Torino, of Agiati in Rovereto and of Pericolanti in Messina.