Category: Games and Puzzles

Feetbook Profiling (or (bi)simulation in disguise)

By Paolo Baldan   University of Padova Roberto Bruni  Universtity of Pisa   A new social network has become extremely popular. It is called Feetbook. Users share stories, anecdotes and pictures about their feet. What is (especially) peculiar is that posts…

Pick the Right Fence

By Paolo Baldan and Roberto Bruni. In a park there is an area including some rare trees. Such trees are planted very regularly at the points of a grid: …

Before the penalties or the geometry of soccer

By Paolo Baldan (1) and Roberto Bruni (2) (1) Univ. of Padova, Department of Pure and Applied Mathematics (2) Univ. of Pisa, Computer Science Department It’s the end of the extra time of the final the European football championship. It has been…