Hay Festival Cartagena 2025
The twentieth edition of Hay Festival Cartagena de Indias will be held from 30 January to 2 February. In this page you can find the events in the general programme as well as Hay Festival Joven activities for university audiences, Hay Festival Comunitario sessions which took place in different areas of Cartagena, Reading Clubs and Talento Editorial.
For any inquirie, please contact tickets@hayfestival.org and contacto@hayfestival.org. Consulta el programa en PDF.
Event 6
Marcus du Sautoy in conversation with Rodrigo Quian Quiroga
The art of the shortcut and abstraction
Centro de Convenciones (Auditorio Getsemaní)
Read moreThe professor Marcus du Sautoy (United Kingdom) is renowned for his work as a mathematics communicator. In his latest publication, Thinking Better, he reflects on shortcuts and their reputation as ways of cheating; but for Sautoy, they are legitimate tactics of the creative process. The author explains how this is reflected in mathematics, in ‘the art of the shortcut’. Together with Rodrigo Quian Quiroga (Argentina), he will talk about the brain’s capacity to code abstract ideas as well as the work done by Quian Quiroga on the “Grandmother cell”. A session that reflects on the relationship between science and art, and the representation of science in film, as dealt with by Quian Quiroga in his book NeuroScienceFiction.
Simultaneous interpretation from English to Spanish available
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