Lorenzo Tomasin and Annalisa Buffa on Artribune Podcast

The Artribune podcast series "Contemporaneamente," hosted by Mariantonietta Firmani, features an interview with philologist Lorenzo Tomasin and mathematician Annalisa Buffa. They discuss language contact in European history, mathematics as a universal language, and the industrial-scale production of low-quality literature. Tomasin, professor of Romance Philology at the University of Lausanne and Italian language history at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, is a member of the Accademia della Crusca and co-director of the historical-etymological dictionary of Venetian. Buffa, professor of mathematics at EPFL and former director of the Institute of Applied Mathematics and Information Technologies at CNR, is a leading expert in numerical analysis of partial differential equations. She has received ERC Starting and Advanced grants and the Collatz Prize. The podcast is distributed by Artribune.com and Parallelo42.it.