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      • The Silent revolution
        Impact of science & technology on society

        The Silent revolution

        The Great Ideas that Led to the Digital Revolution

        by Bruno Codenotti, Mauro Leoncini

        The noisy revolution of digital technology was preceded by a silent scientific revolution, which produced important results, raised fundamental questions and transformed the way we interpret notions that concern mathematical demonstration, the representation of information and human creativity itself. Understanding this transformation is the first fundamental step towards a greater awareness with regard to the changes generated by the digital age in which we are living. Bruno Codenotti and Mauro Leoncini tell us the great “silent revolution” that led to the lifechanging computer revolution, because even if algorithms and AI are part of our daily life... do we really know how they were created and how they work?

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      • Fake people
        Impact of science & technology on society

        Fake people

        Stories of Social Bots and Digital Liars

        by Viola Bachini, Maurizio Tesconi

        Today, on the social media, there is a very high probability of coming across a false profile. As well as individuals who do not state their own identity, social bots can be encountered: these are automated programs which hide algorithms that are so sophisticated that they cannot be distinguished from people in flesh and blood. The social bots, used for a huge variety of purposes, are not all the same: there are the ‘good’ ones, which for example automatically send a tweet in the case of an earthquake, but there are also less virtuous ones… This book tells the story of this variegated universe: from the racist bots of Microsoft to the trolls in the US presidential campaign up to the false followers of Italian politicians, via the swindle of the algorithm which shot up the price of the shares of a phantom company to the stars. It is a fascinating account accompanied by interviews with the most important professionals in the sector, to reveal the challenges faced by those who create the bots and those who hunt them down.

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      • Galileo Galilei’s “Discourses and Mathematical Demonstrations Relating to Two New Sciences” for the modern reader
        History of science

        Galileo Galilei’s “Discourses and Mathematical Demonstrations Relating to Two New Sciences” for the modern reader

        by Alessandro de Angelis

        "Discourses and Mathematical Demonstrations Relating to Two New Sciences" represents the summa of Galileo’s philosophical and physical theory, included by Stephen Hawking in the five most important books of all the history of science. This work led to Isaac Newton’s Principia and to experimental science. However, reading Galileo Galilei is not simple, but Alessandro De Angelis traslated the "Discourses and Mathematical Demonstrations Relating to Two New Science" for the common reader, and now Galileo’s legagy can be passed to future generations, helping them to understand one of the primary sources of scientific theory. Foreign sales: English (Springer)

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      • Counting stories
        Mathematics

        Counting stories

        Imaginary Problems for Real Mathematicians

        by Rudi matematici

        Will the great mathematicians in history ever have had fun proposing and solving problems of recreational mathematics? Or, occupied by their high offices, will they have avoided putting themselves to the test with problems created only for the fun of it? Whatever the answer, it is easy to imagine that what would have appeared paltry problems to them could be ‘difficult’ for ordinary people. The Rudi Mathematici, hesitating over their great passions – telling stories about mathematicians and proposing entertaining problems of mathematics – have found the strange compromise of imagining some great mathematical minds at crucial times in their (real) lives, while they propose and solve some questions which in actual fact they probably never really had to tackle. This way, we find Isaac Newton as a precursor of Sherlock Holmes in the attempt to solve (mathematically) a case of murder, or see an irritated John Von Neumann stealing sweets from Ed Teller, while the Earth risks blowing up; not to mention the strange way with which Vilfredo Pareto, Paul Erdős, G. H. Hardy, Leonardo and others treated the intriguing questions of the world of numbers.

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      • What it will be like
        Impact of science & technology on society

        What it will be like

        Stories of Technologically Modified Umanity

        by Luca De Biase, Telmo Pievani

        Climate change. Financial instability. Migrations. Inequalities. Digital acceleration and political slowness. Today’s major transformations burst into every day’s debates with their unpredictability and their fascination. Why is it so important to talk about the future? What can we do in the face of the challenges that it holds in store for us? Looking at these questions, What it will be like does not offer predictions but suggests a method for looking ahead in awareness, with the only certainty that we can cultivate on the matter: the future is the consequence of our actions. What will it be like is the original synthesis of three views: an investigation into the trends of technological evolution, research into creativity and overcoming the limits of the possible, and criticism of the media narrations. The three approaches converge on two questions: what do we know about the evolution of technology? Do we have the possibility of influencing its direction? The only way to foresee the future is to invent it, and acting in the present is the only machine we have to travel forward in time.

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      • Home Things
        Impact of science & technology on society

        Home Things

        Small Chronicles of Domestic Technologies

        by Vittorio Marchis

        A haven and a refuge, a place that summarizes many meanings, a home is first of all a variegated, stratified, at times chaotic but always living catalogue of the world. A home is full of objects, with varying degrees of technology, visible to varying degrees, cumbersome and invasive to different extents; and each of these objects carries with it one or more stories, of the person who invented them or those who have used them and still use them. Vittorio Marchis, an inquisitive investigator of the human dimension of technology, explores and describes the rooms in our homes like an anthropologist. Object after object, room after room, there emerges between the lines a social history made up of women and men: a history that does not have to be followed in museums or in glossy magazines, because we experience it in our daily gestures. It is a history that is our real history. Foreifgn sales: simplified Chinese (

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      • The brain’s crime
        Neurosciences

        The brain’s crime

        Science Between the Mind and Law

        by Andrea Lavazza, Luca Sammicheli

        The image of man used by Law, which is to say of a rational person that is in charge of his own actions, is undergoing a radical change due to the neurosciences. Recent studies show that emotions matter more than reason, and that our innermost selves are less solid than we think. We are therefore facing a reversal of perspective: is social action truly free? Is there any sense in punishing people that can “only” act in that way? Will there be more absolutions due to brain scans? Will psychopaths be “excused”? This book offers, for the first time, an updated panorama of the judicial, philosophical and social consequences of these delicate and complicated questions.

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