The latest in the series Mathematics and Culture probes the interplay between mathematics and the worlds of art, cinema, theatre and history, medicine, biology and aeronautics. Series Editor Michele Emmer has chosen a new collection of essays illuminating these connections in surprising and fascinating ways. athematics and Culture VI includes: An homage to the artist Mario Merz, whose work depicted numbers derived from the Fibonacci in curving neon arrays Essays on the relationships of mathematics with video and cinema; the complex connections between mathematics and psychoanalysis and the frontiers of applied mathematics Chapters on Mathematics and Cartoon; Mathematics and Art; Mathematics and Cinema and Mathematics and Wine and the journeys of Marco Polo and the Venice he left and came home to. Ideal for mathematicians, teachers, students and general readers interested in the history of ideas, the book presents the observations of thinkers, writers and researchers across a broad spectrum of disciplines. TOC:Introduction.- homage to mario merz.- mathematics and images.- mathematics and psychoanalysis- mathematics and applications.- mathematics and cartoon.- mathematics and art.- matematica e parole.- mathematics and cinema.- mathematics and vine.- homage to alfred döblin and vincent doeblin.- venice.- venice and marco polo. Dreaming Some years ago, in a corridor, in a small space, o? to the side, as in a hidden ravine, they were there. Tey couldn¿t be anywhere else. Hidden and mysterious, with faces that were dreamy and abstracted, or distracted, or pensive. Caught up in their thoughts, caught up in their space, a space that was distant and that only they could understand. Elusive and yet there, in front of me. Certainly, it was them, the six mathematicians of the Mathematica series by Mimmo Paladino. Tinkers of numbers and shapes. For ten years we have been searching for the mathematicians there. In Venice, the favourite place. An aura of mystery surrounds them, otherwise what kind of mathematicians would they be! Mysterious, dreamy, absent, absorbed are the faces of Paladinös mathemat- V icians. Te voices of ?ve Sardinian shepherds intone the Kyrie,the Libera Me Domine, the Sanctus. Insistent, profound, archaic voices. Te soundtrack of a journey, of a journey towards nothingness. A journey towards Te Wild Blue Yonder ,the last ?lm by Werner Herzog, winner of the international Critic¿s prize at the Venice f- tival in ????. Te heroes were astronauts, even if by now no one cares about their adventures;astronautswhotakeo?,whotravel,butdon¿tknowwheretheyaregoing. And then there are the true heroes, the real gurus of the ?lm, the characters who some years ago burst onto the scene in cinema: the mathematicians.