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Paolo Alessandrini
Mathematics on the pitch
Numbers and geometries in the game of football
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- Overview
- Look inside
- Resources and audio
- About the author
- Press
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Paolo Alessandrini
Mathematics on the pitch
Numbers and geometries in the game of football
- Overview
- Look inside
- Resources and audio
- About the author
- Press
Overview
The author ranges from the geometry of soccer balls to the combinatorics of tournament calendars, going through the physics of goal shots, the mathematics of sports betting, and the theory of games in penalty kicks.
The book is structured along the lines of a soccer match, with a pre-match stage, a first half, half-time, a second half, extra time, penalty kicks and the after match. That’s not all, since a lot of mathematics is embedded in the game of soccer: numbers, statistics and technology are now rapidly acquiring an important role on the pitches, as evidenced by the increasing significance of systems such as VAR or match analysis.
Every chapter starts with a soccer anecdote, which paves the way to questions where mathematics plays the main role.
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About the author
Paolo Alessandrini, is a teacher of mathematics and a computer engineer, the author of articles and books on recreational mathematics. He edits the mathematics blog called Mr. Palomar, and works on educational and informative projects. For Hoepli he has written Matematica rock – Rocking Mathematics (2019) and Bestiario matematico – Mathematics Bestiary (2021). He was a finalist for the Asimov Award.
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