Marcus du Sautoy in conversation with Rodrigo Quian Quiroga

The professor Marcus du Sautoy (United Kingdom) is renowned for his work as a mathematics communicator. In his latest publication, Thinking Better, he reflects on shortcuts and their reputation as ways of cheating; but for Sautoy, they are legitimate tactics of the creative process. The author explains how this is reflected in mathematics, in ‘the art of the shortcut’. Together with Rodrigo Quian Quiroga (Argentina), he will talk about the brain’s capacity to code abstract ideas as well as the work done by Quian Quiroga on the “Grandmother cell”. A session that reflects on the relationship between science and art, and the representation of science in film, as dealt with by Quian Quiroga in his book NeuroScienceFiction.

Simultaneous interpretation from English to Spanish available