Dario Bressanini - Silvia Toniato
Fra’ Luca Pacioli’s mathematical games
Tricks, riddles and pastimes of the late 15th century
Did anyone break the eggs in your basket and you couldn’t remember how many eggs were there? Do numbers help to read anybody’s thoughts? Is it possible to save both goat and cabbages? The answers to these and other curious questions are in an unpublished collection of games by Fra’ Luca Pacioli, the greatest Italian mathematician of the 15th century.
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reprintScienceseptember 2011 - pp. 240 ISBN 9788822068231
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Vincenzo Sorrentino
The invisible power
Secrets and lies in the contemporary politics
The secrets and lies of the power, the spreading corruption, the manipulation of media, an intrusive surveillance, violence and death planned in the darkness: the invisible power endangers the quality and maybe the future of our democracy.
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Politics
september 2011 - pp. 336
ISBN 9788822053862
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Giovanni La Torre
A convenient lie
The debate on the global crisis
That’s the book on the crisis we need. Everything the economists said in recent years here is compared, discussed and criticized. They made us believe that it’s all bad finance’s fault. But that’s just a convenient lie…
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Economy
february 2011 - pp. 184
ISBN 9788822055163
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Giulio Peruzzi
Vortex and colours
At the origins of James Clerk Maxwell’s work
Does a relationship exist between the study of colours and the rotation of a top? Could the vortex into a fluid be useful to understand Saturn’s rings? A new and original interpretation of Maxwell’s work, in order to understand the crucial role of metaphor in the developments of science and technology in the 20th century.
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Science
october 2010 - pp. 224
ISBN 9788822002495
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Annamaria Rivera
Spelix
Story of cats, immigrants and a crime
What has a cat to do with a murder, xenophobia, the authoritarian society, the malfeasance of powerful people? To find out about it, just read this novel.
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Literature and fiction
october 2010 - pp. 208
ISBN 9788822041685
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