Demian Nahuel Goos

the artist

Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina

Demian Nahuel Goos is a mathematician from Argentina who works on the history of mathematics. He focuses his research on the emergence of set theory and the works of Georg Cantor and Richard Dedekind.

the artwork

Rock me Ernst Zermelo

2022, acrylic on canvas, 42cm x 60cm

audio commentary

I am passionate about the history of mathematics, in particular, about the origins of set theory and the emotionally charged debates and the struggle over the foundations of mathematics. In this artwork we see the ‘winner’ of one of those disputes: Ernst Zermelo. His axiomatization of set theory is elegant and simple, just like Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s music. This is why we can see Zermelo dressed in a Mozart-fashion.

Demian Goos