A Portrait of the Mathematical Tribe

Marco LiCalzi

A chapter in Imagine Math 7, 2020, pp 313-331 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In 2009, the photographer Marianna Cook published a fascinating collection of 92 photographic portraits of mathematicians. Her single-page preface to the book exudes the same insight and sensibility that animate her pictures. The first sentence, presumably written after having met and photographed so many of them, claims that “mathematicians […] may look like the rest of us, but they are not the same.” If the external appearance is the same, the differences must be somewhere else: here we sketch a (verbal) portrait of what makes them a distinct tribe.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-42653-8_19

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