Tutta questione di education (non di istruzione)
Stagnanzione, recessione, inoccupazione...come venirne fuori? L'unica strada possibile è l'investimento su noi stessi: l'istruzione, o meglio l'education!
07Nov
05Nov
Alla scoperta della probabilità & dell’infinito!
“Come può una scimmia scrivere la Divina Commedia?”, "Facile", risponderete voi, “non può”. E qui invece viene il bello...è tutta questione di probabilità!
05Nov
Discovering the concept of infinity and probability
“How can a rock stem the sea? ” used to sing the legendary Italian singer Lucio Battisti. “How can a monkey write the Divine Comedy?” I ask you today. You’ll easily answer: “It cannot!”. And here comes the fun: Emile Borel did not think so! Today I’ll show you that not only a monkey can write...
25Ott
Magic square: the best way to have fun with logic and arithmetic!
A passion long millennia that unconsciously keeps on attracting us all Fun with logic and arithmetic seems impossible to many of us, but it is actually an ancient, and still more widespread than one can think, activity! Take for example Magic Squares. These are squares, subdivided into smaller squares that contain all the numbers from...
13Set
Mathematics: the art of being curious!
But you ... you read the pre-readings??? (Today I want to tell you a story.) It's the beginning of September, I enroll in my first MOOC - which stands for Massive Open Online Course - a free online university course open to thousands of students. The theme is "Mathematical Thinking" , the professor is Keith Devlin, a...
13Set
Matematica: l’arte di essere curiosi
(Oggi voglio raccontarvi una storia.) E' l'inizio di settembre, mi iscrivo al mio primo MOOC - che sta per Massive Open Online Course - un corso universitario online gratis aperto a migliaia di studenti. Il tema è “Mathematical Thinking”, il professore Keith Devlin, un vero guru della matematica. Ogni due giorni circa mi arrivano email di...
12Set
PISA: few facts about jobs and education in Italy
There is a beautiful country with a more than just rich culture which sits around halfway (30th out of approximately 70) in PISA rankings, the International Program for Student Assessment promoted by the OECD. That same nation boasts the 19th per capita income, in the OECD context. A nation where we talk less and less,...