Michele Emmer, mathematician, writer, film maker, art curator, actor when 8 years old in my father film "Camilla" see photo;is full professor of mathematics at the University of Rome "La Sapienza". His area of interest: PDE and minimal surfaces, computer graphics, mathematics and arts,...
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Michele Emmer, mathematician, writer, film maker, art curator, actor when 8 years old in my father film "Camilla" see photo;is full professor of mathematics at the University of Rome "La Sapienza". His area of interest: PDE and minimal surfaces, computer graphics, mathematics and arts, architecture, cinema, culture. Member of the board of the Journal "Leonardo: art, science and technology", MIT Press. Filmmaker, author of 20 films in the series "Art and Math", including "Escher" and "Flatland", broadcasted by the State Italian television and other television; distributed in many countries. Homage in several Film Festivals: Bellaria, Bergamo, Rome Animation, Torino Museo del cinema, La Villette, Paris. He organizes the annual conference on "Mathematics and Culture" at the University of Venice; editor of the series "Mathematics and Culture" by Springer verlag; the series "The Visual Mind" by MIT press; video series "Video math" by Springer verlag. Last books: "Il mio Harry's Bar", Archinto ed, 2012; "Imagine Math" Springer, 2012; "Numeri immaginari:cinema e matematica", Bollati, 2011; "Matematic e cultura 2011", Springer; "Mathematics and Culture !!!", Springer, 2012,"Bolle di sapone", Bollati Boringhieri, 2009, best Italian essay 2010; "Flatland with DVD", Bollati Boringhieri, 2008, music by Ennio Morricone; "Visibili armonie arte cinema teatro matematica", Bollati Boringhieri, Torino, 2006; "The Visual Mind 2", MIT Press, 2006; "Mathematics and Culture V", Springer verlag, 2006; a chapter in "Venise" , Flammarion, Paris, 2006, "matematica e cultura 2008", Springer, 2008, "Matematica e cultura 2010", Springer. He has been member of the Commission for the popularization of math of the European Math Society. He will organize at the MART a large exhibition on "Art and Math" in Italy from december 2012 and June 2013.
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