{"id":28680,"date":"2024-04-04T04:51:38","date_gmt":"2024-04-04T02:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xmau.com\/wp\/notiziole\/?p=28680"},"modified":"2024-04-04T22:58:59","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T20:58:59","slug":"a-k-dewdney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xmau.com\/notiziole\/2024\/04\/04\/a-k-dewdney\/","title":{"rendered":"A.K. Dewdney"},"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\/2024\/04\/dewdney.jpg?resize=233%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A.K. Dewdney\" width=\"233\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-28681\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xmau.com\/notiziole\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/04\/dewdney.jpg?resize=233%2C300&amp;ssl=1 233w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xmau.com\/notiziole\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/04\/dewdney.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/> Ho scoperto solo qualche giorno fa (ma Wikipedia <a href=\"https:\/\/it.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alexander_Keewatin_Dewdney\">lo sapeva da settimane<\/a>) che il mese scorso <a href=\"https:\/\/lfpress.remembering.ca\/obituary\/alexander-dewdney-1089463499\">\u00e8 morto A.K. Dewdney<\/a>. I miei coetanei si dovrebbero ricordare di lui dai tempi della rubrica di giochi sullo Scientific American, prima &#8220;Computer Recreations&#8221; e poi &#8220;Mathematical Recreations&#8221;, che tenne dopo Martin Gardner e Douglas Hofstadter. I miei amici sanno che sono vari decenni che in varie incarnazioni &#8211; l&#8217;ultima <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frenf.it\/earlyadopters\/dewdney-ita\">sul socialino di nicchia<\/a> &#8211; esiste un gruppo di chiacchiere matematiche e informatiche che prende il nome da l\u00ec. Avevo anche i numeri della sua rivista Algorithm, che devo purtroppo aver perso in qualche trasloco&#8230; e naturalmente ho parecchi dei suoi libri, tranne purtroppo <i><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/planiversecomput0000dewd_y8t2\">The Planiverse<\/a><\/i> dove si pu\u00f2 vedere il suo altro amore, quello per la biologia. Non solo ha descritto un mondo bidimensionale, ma ha anche mostrato come potrebbe funzionare dal punto di vista biologico&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><small>(immagine presa dall&#8217;obituary sul London Free Press citato nell&#8217;articolo)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>un grande autore di informatica 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