Camilla Andreozzi
ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Camilla Andreozzi is a statistician from Italy who works on multi-fidelity models, Gaussian Processes and evolutionary dynamics.
the artwork
L'Assunzione
Italian - The Assumption - 2026 - digital picture, digital editing
audio commentary
Assumptions are so common in maths that we forget they are tools. Yet everything depends on them. I am fascinated by how changing assumptions can reshape models and an entire society’s understanding of humanity. Over a shrine from my hometown, I placed a branching process: a model of biological descent that also evokes the transmission of ideas. For centuries, European culture traced human lineage back to Adam and Eve, created directly by God. Groundbreaking scientific discoveries challenged the centrality of religion and the perception of reality itself had to change assumptions.
Camilla Andreozzi
Change from theocentric religious thinking to scientific-based assumptions
mathematics in Italian culture
15th of August is Assumption of Mary day. I was intrigued by the juxtaposition between Mary and the word assumption, so commonly used in maths. The presence of Mary was once an assumption of everyday life: in the rural Italy I come from, every couple kilometers you come across a shrine. I am fascinated by evolution, by the mathematical models, but mostly by the philosophy and by the ideological shift that followed its spread. Branching processes are now used to describe mathematical biological descent but somehow also picture the spread of ideas and religious inheritance.
Camilla Andreozzi
