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One of the contributions to the first edition of the MATHKNOW conference is a very peculiar movie, Adam’s Pears, a sort of documentary that intends to underline analogies, and differences among climate changes, social and political movements and, to some extent, exact sciences such as mathematics.
Man ate from the tree of knowledge and started to know, comprehend and separated. And from that moment on, his troubles began. Maybe he’d have avoided many of them if he’d noticed there were pears on the tree as well as apples.
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Chiesa, G. (2009). Adam’s Pears. In: Emmer, M., Quarteroni, A. (eds) Mathknow. MS&A, vol 3. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-1122-9_16
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