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The book tells the fascinating story of the great mathematical ideas, developed over the centuries, that form the foundation of modern artificial intelligence.

The author aims to answer a crucial question: how–and above all, why–does the heart of AI work? How do these powerful mathematical ideas interact with each other to give rise to machines capable of learning, predicting, and thinking?

Through a narrative that alternates between history and mathematics, Alessandrini reveals how great minds of the past, such as Cardano, Descartes, Newton, Bayes, Grassmann, and Levi-Civita, laid the theoretical foundations of modern AI.

A book that aims to tell what happens in the forest, perceived through the five senses and translated into dance, poetry, song, and knowledge.

Through the exploration of forests in Italy and around the world, the author highlights the relationship between humans and trees–a relationship that unfolds in encounters that are sometimes harmonious, sometimes unbalanced, prompting reflection on a complete change of mindset. Originally, the word “forest” derives from “fores stare,” meaning to stay outside–outside the city, the community, and conventions, away from the light of torches, where it was dark, wild, dangerous, where there were wild beasts and bandits. Today, venturing into forests opens up a new dimension, as a place of refuge where one can seek a reconnection between humans and nature.

A fascinating tale about trees, told through the voices of researchers, mountaineers, artists, and naturalists.

The fundamental concepts of astrophysics are presented in a curious and captivating way, written in the intriguing style of a skilled science communicator.

It starts from the Big Bang, then moves on to the structure of matter, dark energy, spacetime, and complexity, finally arriving at future scenarios such as the possible Big Crunch or Big Rip, and the idea of a cyclic universe.

Each chapter is dedicated to one of the words at the heart of understanding stars and the cosmos, so that by the end, the reader will have the keys to the sky–at least in terms of knowledge.