Blue errors in the applications for the competition to become prof. Intellectuals write to government: “Fix the mess”

The most striking example reported concerns a question posed to mathematics teachers looking for a tenured chair: among the answers the correct one for ministerial selectors was the “hexagonal parallelogram”. So good? Not really: it is a geometric figure that does not exist. Hence the appeal against a school competition full of errors by over 50 teachers, mostly university teachers, including the linguist Luca Serianni, Luciano Canfora, Francesco Sabatini, honorary president of the Accademia della Crusca, Massimo Cacciari, Silvia Roncheythe Englishman Piero Boitanione of the most important connoisseurs of Dante, the poet Lol you and the mathematician Umberto Bottazzini winner of the Pythagoras Prize for mathematical popularization, fellow ofAmerican Mathematical Society that…