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The University of Trento
Faculty of Science
Department of Mathematics
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The University of Trento Faculty of Science Department of Mathematics |
Valter Moretti's Scientific pages
| Math. Dept.
room:
121Mathematics phone: (work) +39 0461 281627, fax: +39 0461 281624 e-mail: morettiAscience.unitn.it (replace A with @) Address: Prof. Valter Moretti, Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, University of Trento, via Sommarive 14, 38050 Povo (Trento), |
 Associate Professor of Mathematical Physics |
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curriculum vitae (short version) curriculum vitae (extended Italian version) |
Research interests (also see the web page of LQP crossroads ) |
publication list |
(almost all in Italian)
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| "La filosofia e'
scritta in questo grandissimo libro che continuamente ci sta aperto
innanzi a gli occhi (io dico l'universo), ma non si puo'
intendere se prima non s'impara a intender la lingua, e conoscer
i caratteri, ne' quali e' scritto. Egli e' scritto in
lingua matematica, e i suoi caratteri sono triangoli, cerchi, ed altre
figure geometriche, senza i quali mezzi e' impossibile a
intenderne umanamente parola; senza questi e' un aggirarsi
vanamente per un oscuro labirinto." (English translation: ''Philosophy is written in that great book which continually lies open before us (I mean the Universe). But one cannot understand this book until one has learned to understand the language and to know the letters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and the letters are triangles, circles and other geometric figures. Without these means it is impossible for mankind to understand a single word; without these means there is only vain stumbling in a dark labyrinth.'') Galileo Galilei (Il Saggiatore, 1623) "The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve. We should be grateful for it and hope that it will remain valid in future research and that it will extend, for better or for worse, to our pleasure, even though perhaps also to our bafflement, to wide branches of learning." Eugene Wigner (Comm.Pure.Appl.Math. Vol. 13, No 1, February 1960 ) "For
the
mathematician
there
is no Ignorabimus, and, in my
opinion, not at all for natural science either. ... The true reason why
[no one] has succeeded in finding an unsolvable problem is, in my
opinion, that there is no unsolvable problem. In contrast to the
foolish Ignoramibus, our credo avers: We must know, We shall know." David Hilbert, Den Text des Vortrages ist in Die Naturwissenschaften, 28 November 1930, S.959-963 veroeffentlicht.
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