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Piergiorgio Odifreddi (born 13 July , in Cuneo) is an Italian mathematician, logician, scholar of the history of science, and popular science writer and essayist, especially on philosophical atheism as a member of the Italian Union of Rationalist Atheists and Agnostics.

He is philosophically and politically near to Bertrand Russell and Noam Chomsky.

Early life and education

Born in Cuneo in the Piedmont region, he received his Laureacum laude in mathematics in Turin in He then specialized in the United States at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and UCLA from and , and in the Soviet Union at Novosibirsk State University in and

Teaching career

From to , he taught logic at the University of Turin, and from to he was visiting professor at Cornell University, where he collaborated wi