Scientific Divulgation: Enology and Mathematics

Abstract

In the chain of communication of science and the transmission of scientific knowledge, scientists constitute an important link. However, there are not many works that address aspects related to the role of the scientific community in the dissemination of science, its patterns of communication with the public, or its patterns of behavior and motivations when participating in dissemination activities. My opinion is that those carried out so far are focused, fundamentally, on the study of the role of the different estates and on professionals, promoters and transmitters, involved in the tasks of scientific dissemination.

With this contribution I intend to bring Mathematics closer to a subject that most people cannot imagine, Oenology. I will show just a brushstroke in which, thanks to the various applications of mathematics, they have begun to think of mathematics not only as a dry subject, only accessible to mathematicians, but as a basic and fundamental tool that everyone should understand, as much as you can, because mathematics can help sculpt and model almost everything, also in many aspects related to the most important drink of the ancient world, wine.