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PIERGIORGIO ODIFREDDI THE MATHEMATICS OF THE INDIANS a project by Sergio Maifredi and Piergiorgio Odifreddi directed by Sergio Maifredi produced by Teatro Pubblico Ligure in collaboration with Corvino Produzioni You cannot understand India, and you only have a very partial vision of it, if you stop at its literature and its art, and ignore its science and its mathematics. The latter, in particular, has been at the forefront in the world on at least two historical occasions. Towards the second half of the first millennium, the Indians invented zero in arithmetic, which was unknown to both the Greeks and the Romans. And in the second half of the 14th century, the Keralan Madhava discovered trigonometric series in analysis, which three centuries later would bring glory to Newton and Leibniz. As for geometry, in the early days of their history the Indians also developed it, if not above all, for ritual purposes: which is not surprising, given the great variety of religions that have always cheered or disturbed, depending on the moment, the life of the country. at the Teatro Comunale di Sori for the 2019-2020 season of soriteatro