Art and science

The CNR’s birthday

di Pietro Greco
Pubblicato il 16/10/2013
CNR
Art and science
Communication
Scientific research policy

The Italian CNR - the National Research Council - will be turning 90 next November. Its President, Luigi Nicolais (a chemical engineer, also member of Gruppo 2003), last September 30 celebrated the birthday of our most important public research body at its head office in Rome with an essential, but significant, ceremony.

Nature by numbers

di Manuel Cristobal Vila Laguarta
Pubblicato il 30/09/2011
Art and science

The animation begins by presenting a series of numbers. This is a very famous and recognized sequence since many centuries ago in the Western World thanks to Leonardo of Pisa, a thirteenth century Italian mathematician, also called Fibonacci. So it is known as Fibonacci Sequence, even although it had been described much earlier by Indian mathematicians.