{"id":11108,"date":"2015-03-21T04:00:49","date_gmt":"2015-03-21T03:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xmau.com\/wp\/notiziole\/?p=11108"},"modified":"2015-04-10T11:18:59","modified_gmt":"2015-04-10T10:18:59","slug":"mg_21st_century_-libro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xmau.com\/notiziole\/2015\/03\/21\/mg_21st_century_-libro\/","title":{"rendered":"_Martin Gardner in the Twenty-First Century_ (libro)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xmau.com\/notiziole\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2015\/03\/9780883859131.jpg?resize=125%2C180\" alt=\"[copertina]\" width=\"125\" height=\"180\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11138\" \/>Chiunque parli di matematica ricreativa non pu\u00f2 non parlare di Martin Gardner. Quello che \u00e8 incredibile \u00e8 che la sua influenza \u00e8 arrivata anche nel ventunesimo secolo. Questa raccolta (Michael Henle e Brian Hopkins (ed.), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.it\/dp\/0883859130?tag=notizioledima-21\"><em>Martin Gardner in the Twenty-First Century<\/em><\/a>, MAA 2012, pag. 274, $40, ISBN 978-0-61444-801-3) contiene appunto vari testi pubblicati dal 2000 al 2010 che partono dai temi trattati da Gardner nella sua rubrica sullo Scientific American e presentano nuovi risultati che espandono quanto scritto al tempo. Ma ci sono anche alcuni articoli dello stesso Martin Gardner, che ben dopo aver compiuto novant&#8217;anni (era del 1914) continuava a collaborare con la Mathematical Association of America; aveva inviato l&#8217;ultimo suo racconto, <i>Superstrings and Thelma<\/i>, anch&#8217;esso presente in questa raccolta, qualche settimana prima della sua morte.<br \/>\nCome doveroso, gli argomenti trattati nel libro sono tra i pi\u00f9 svariati: per chi ha una formazione matematica di base, \u00e8 molto piacevole riprendere i temi che Gardner present\u00f2 mezzo secolo fa e scoprire i nuovi sviluppi teorici &#8211; e anche pratici&#8230; &#8211; che sono avvenuti. La lettura \u00e8 sicuramente consigliata per tutti i fan della matematica ricreativa, e non preoccupatevi se non comprenderete tutto! Come dice lo stesso Gardner &#8211; la citazione la si trova nella prefazione &#8211; sul motivo per cui quello che scriveva era cos\u00ec chiaro:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I took no math in college. I\u2019m like a person who loves music but can\u2019t hum a tune or play an instrument. My understanding of math does not go beyond a minimal understanding of calculus. I hasten to add that I consider this one reason for the success of my Scientific American column. I had to work hard to understand whatever I wrote about, and this made it much easier for me to write in a way that readers could understand.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ancora ricordi del buon vecchio zio 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