Chi si ritira dal mondo; cosiddetto sociale; egrave; il soggetto di questo bozzetto drammatico; dal titolo ldquo;Assenterdquo;. Tratta la vita di un individuo che; vicino alletagrave; di venticinque anni; si rende conto del "vuoto" che la vita gli sta proponendo in maniera alquanto ingiustificata. Egrave; questa nuova condizione vitale che egli non sa piugrave; gestire; e che lo rende "distaccato" da tutto quello che prima lo attirava. Lantica Illusione (di quando aveva mille speranze; mille certezze; mille sogni) cede ora il posto ad una Delusione smisurata quanto la sua disperata nostalgia verso un Tempo andato e che non riesce piugrave; a ritrovare. Troviamo; cosigrave;; il nostro individuo alle prese con la Psicanalisi: ultima frontiera per tentare di capire "linconcepibile".
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Fabulous visual overview of math historyBy math ladyI love this book so much that I told my college geometry students to purchse it in lieu of a traditional textbook this semester. Each picture can become a mini lecture! My non-math majors find the pages inspirational - and; at $27 retail; the price for a hard cover book makes it an economical purchase. I am hoping this is one math book my students opt to keep - and treasure - long after the course in Geometry and the Art of Design concludes its final class!!1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. EnjoyableBy William SchramContains images demonstrating geometrical ideas and theorems. Very lovely in some respects and contains a lot of information. Written alongside the images are explanations of the theorem in question and a little bit of history.3 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Beautiful bookBy Grant CairnsThis delightful book has 51chapters each devoted to a classical topic in geometry. Each chapter includes a beautiful colour plate and many chapters include additional illustrations. The topics are well chosen and the text is logical and eloquent. The book should be accessible to a very broad audience (there is an appendix with more mathematical details for those inclined). The attention to detail and the standard of production are both outstanding. This would make an excellent gift and would be enjoyed by anyone interested in math; the history of math; art or architecture.Here are 4 comments/observations:p. 44. It is often stated that there is no formula for the primes; but this is actually not the case. There are many explicit formulas. (To my mind the nicest is Ghandis formula). For example; see Underwood Dudleys "Formulas for primes"; Math. Mag. 56 (1983); no. 1; 17-22. There have also been other formulas obtained since Dudleys paper.p.101. For a geometric derivation of the formula for ln(2); see the proof without words by Matt Hudelson; Math. Mag. vol 83 (2010) p.294.p.120. Fig 36.3; in the 2nd and 4th figure the red dot should be in the centre of the figure; not on the rim of the circle.Chap 49. In my opinion the common popular treatment of the Koch curve is not entirely satisfactory; in that it may be unclear to the reader that its length is infinite; or in fact; what its length means. To clarify my concern; let alpha>0 and consider the curve: gamma_n : [01]->R^2 whose graph on each interval [m/n;(m+1)/n] is a little tent of height alpha/n; where m=0;1;2;...n-1. As n-> infty; the curve converges (in the sup norm) to the unit interval on the x-axis (which is a curve of length 1). But gamma_n has length sqrt(4 alpha^2+1); which is constant; and can be given any value >1 by appropriately choosing alpha. This example shows that where a curve is constructed as the limit of a sequence of curves; the length of the limit is not in general equal to the limit of the lengths. Further; a sequence of curves whose length tends to infinity; could well tend to a curve of finite length. I think an intelligent reader might wonder why this isnt also the case with the Koch curve.