One of Chick’s greatest masterpieces is ‘Armando’s Rhumba’. As the name suggests, the song has the style and the structure of a cuban rhumba. The theme and the solos have the same chord structure: | C- | D7 | G7 | C- | C- | D7 | G7 | C- | C7b9 | F-7 | […]
Month: December 2020
Euclidean Geometry In Mathematical Olympiads, Evan Chen
The most complete and interesting Geometry theory book I’ve ever read is ‘Euclidean Geometry In Mathematical Olympiads’, by Evan Chen. We could say that it’s the Bible of people who love Geometry problems in the Olympiads. It is divided into 10 theory chapters, which talk about different branches and techniques you can use to solve […]
Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and Tensorflow
The best book about machine learning I’ve found so far is ‘Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and Tensorflow’. This is a complete manual that treats supervised learning, unsupervised learning and deep learning. It is divided into 19 chapters, each consisting of a particular model or technique you can use in your projects. It really […]
My 60 Memorable Games, Bobby Fischer
My favorite chess book is ‘My 60 Memorable Games’, by Robert James Fischer himself. This book is a collection of the 60 games Fischer thinks are the most significant of his career. These games were played between 1957 and 1967, so they don’t include the games from his World Chess Championship Match against Boris Spassky […]
Spain, Chick Corea
One of my favorite pieces, both to listen to and to play on the piano, is Chick Corea’s Spain. Its first appearance was in 1972, when the album ‘Light as a Feather’ was published. After a slow opening, which is actually the adagio from Joaquin Rodrigo’s ‘Concierto de Aranjuez’, the song turns into something very […]
Problem Solving Strategies
A very interesting non-calculus mathematics book is ‘Problem-Solving Strategies’, by Arthur Engel. It gathers competition problems from over twenty national and international competitions of high school students. The book is composed of 14 chapters. Each of these explains a particular mathematical concept, like the Extremal Principle, shows some exercises with solutions and then proposes some […]
Animal Farm
A book I really enjoyed reading is ‘Animal Farm’, written by George Orwell. It talks about the story of some animals who suffer from being exploited by a farmer, Mr Jones, who is the owner of the Manor Farm. Inspired by the Old Major, a middle white boar, they decide to uprise and eventually conquer […]
Happy Birthday Mom
I Made this nice plot for my mother’s birthday (which is today, 4th December) and I thought it would be nice to share it. import numpy as npimport matplotlib.pyplot as pltdef heart_plotter(precision): t = np.linspace(0, 60, precision) X = 1/100*(-t**2 + 40*t + 1200)*np.sin(t/90) Y = 1/100*(-t**2 + 40*t + 1200)*np.cos(t/60) Y_1 = 1/100*(-t**2 + […]
A Python Rubik’s Cube Solver: Part 1
Finally, I was able to get my own GitHub account, which you can find at https://github.com/mattiagiuri, and my first repository is one containing my latest project: a Rubik’s cube solver in Python. If you want, you can check it out and have fun with your Rubik’s cube solving tasks. How does it work? First, I […]
Sum Of Powers Of Roots Of Polynomials
Our olympic course professor gave us some exercises, and among these there is one which resolution is particularly instructive. Find the sum of the fifth powers of the roots of: To solve it, we need to write the recursion which is associated to the polynomial, which is: This recursion will give us the sum of […]