(8 June 2016) Complex, provocative and considered by many one of the most difficult books in English literature. Yet, it is a masterpiece. “Ulysses” was first published in 1922 by the Irish writer James Joyce. The novel tells the story of a modern man struggling with problems and daily vicissitudes, not a hero. Today, 90 years later, a researcher shows that there is much more mathematics than expected in the text. Mathematician Piergiorgio Odifreddi will visit the Italian Cultural Institute in Dublin on Thursday, June 16 at 18:30 to offer the public “a mathematical walk along Joyce’s Dublin in Ulysses”. Odifreddi returns to Dublin for an evening – promoted by the ICI- to look for the numbers in the Joycean landscapes. With particular reference to the chapter “Ithaca”, Odifreddi will talk about Mr. Bloom’s passion (protagonist of Ulysses) for size and distance, the circle, kinetic force, and astronomical numbers. (Red)
