Science
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Bruno D’Amore
Art and Mathematics
Metaphors, analogies, representations, identities between two possible worlds
A fascinating history of art, an original history of mathematics: two histories in one, written by an art critic who is also a mathematician.
9788822041760year: 2015pages: 520Luigi BorzacchiniKant's computer
The structure of modern mathematics and logic
From Leibniz to Turing, this is the third book ina fascinating trilogy telling the history of the formal mathematics.
9788822002631year: 2015pages: 592Andrea Giuliacci – Lorenza Di MatteoThe alphabet of weather
Why climate, Renaissance’s painting and good cooking have a lot in common
The weather has shaped deeply history, art and all the socio-economical human activities: this book explains how and why.
9788822068576year: 2015pages: 208Graziano CioccaBulls hate red
10 false superstitions on animals
The bulls hate red, the cockroaches are the only ones that can survive a nuclear disaster, the bats usually catch on hairs… these are all lies! Are you ready to debunk some myths about animals?
9788822068606year: 2015pages: 240Giovanni Vittorio PallottinoRadioactivity around us
Prejudices and reality
What is radioactivity? Is it the diabolical discovery of mad scientists or rather a natural physical phenomenon, always around us?
9788822068514year: 2014pages: 192Tommaso CastellaniEquilibrium
The curious story of a physical concept
Why isn’t the perpetual motion possible? Why has the internal-combustion engine a law efficiency? Why do the simmetries in physics “break”? The answers to these and other questions involve the idea of equilibrium, that is essential for modern physics.
9788822068422year: 2013pages: 184Elena IoliBlack as a black hole
The Universe is populated by asteroids, comets, but certainly black holes are its most mysterious and fascinating inhabitants. After the tales, the descriptions and the exciting examples told by grandpa Gino, professor of astronomy, the black holes will have no more secrets!
9788822048356year: 2013pages: 72Bruno D’Amore, Martha Isabel Fandiño PinillaPitagora's grandma
The invention of math explained to the unbelievers
Ten fanciful and fun stories on the major conceptual constructions of mathematical thinking, followed by ten (more serious) biographies of some of the major protagonists of the math of all time.
9788822041722year: 2013pages: 192Paolo BerraSymmetries of the Universe
From the discovery of antimatter to LHC
Matter and antimatter, the Universe and his physical laws. The latest scientific experiments in the large international laboratories take us on a journey to the frontier of the physics of the XXI century.
9788822002570year: 2013pages: 232Marco PaciRubbish and environment
Why is it important to reduce rubbish? And why is rubbish separation necessary for the protection of the environment? What is the meaning of recycling and how we can do it? And how can incinerators and dumpings help us?
9788822048318year: 2012pages: 64Giovanni Vittorio PallottinoThe physics of frugalità
Half (or even less) is enough
We could live well, or even better, by reducing energy consumption: the physics of everyday life, easy everyone,teaches us how to do it.
9788822068347year: 2012month: julyformat: 14 x 21 cmpages: 136Dario Bressanini, Silvia ToniatoFra' 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.
9788822068231year: 2011month: septemberformat: 14 x 21 cmpages: 204
