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• Scacchi e matematica

  

  Riccardo Giussani

  

  Scacchi e matematica: gli algoritmi informatici dei computer scacchistici

  wordpress.com

  Gli scacchi sono da sempre oggetto di interesse da parte del mondo matematico per via della razionalità, della linearità e dell’armonia tipiche del …

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  Riccardo Giussani

  

  Nearby system has 7 Earth-sized planets, several in the habitable zone

  Ars Technica - John Timmer

  Less than 40 light years away, TRAPPIST-1 hosts a plethora of planets. Less than a year ago, an international team of astronomers put the star …

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  Riccardo Giussani

  

  Checkmate! A mathematical solution to a life-or-death problem

  siliconrepublic.com - by Kirsty Tobin

  Maths can be challenging. Maths can be fun. And, on rare occasions, maths can even be life-saving. Last week, we learned how Wonderland was getting …

• http://www.magicalmaths.org/the-beauty-of-mathematics-is-phenomenal-watch-the-maths-behind-some-everyday-situations/

  

  Riccardo Giussani

  Dave Renshaw

  Jan 2, 2014
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  Riccardo Giussani

  

  The Mind-Bending Mathematics Behind Quantum Computers

  Popular Mechanics - Sophie Weiner

  And if you've had your coffee, maybe you can even understand half of it. Quantum computing is a lot to wrap your mind around. To put things very simply (as Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau did recently, with surprising eloquence) regular computers are made up of bits—ones and zeros—which are …