Bad Teacher • Meeting with Piergiorgio Odifreddi
Tuesday 29 September, 6pm – ESSECI, Corte Vanna and Giulio Ferrero
Bertrand Russell is a symbol of free and progressive thought of the twentieth century. He was one of the century's greatest logicians and philosophers, and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950. He founded an alternative school for children, and popularized science and philosophy in an inimitable manner. He fought against religion and superstition, and in favor of free love and open marriage. A great "immoral" thinker of the twentieth century, he addressed the thorniest issues of our time. He was imprisoned twice for pacifism: the second time, at the age of ninety! He established a tribunal against US war crimes in Vietnam. And at ninety-eight, two days before his death, he launched a final appeal against Israel's war crimes in Palestine. He is considered a "bad teacher" by all the Pharisees, past and present. Piergiorgio Odifreddi presents Bad Teacher (Raffaello Cortina Editore, 2026) in conversation with Raffaele Riba. Edited by scrittorincittà.
Piergiorgio Odifreddi studied mathematics in Italy and the United States, and taught mathematical logic at the University of Turin and Cornell University in New York. In 2011, he won the Galileo Prize for scientific dissemination. His works, published by us, include God's Computer (2000), The Republic of Numbers (2002), Mathematical Pills (2022), In Small Doses (2023), Something Rotten in the West (2024) , and Close Encounters Between Two Cultures (2025).
How to participate
The event is free, but you must reserve your spot by clicking here (reservations open from September 16th).
