Primo Levi épistémologue des camps

Martina MENGONI, The gray zone: Power and privilege in Primo Levi

French) Primo Levi est universellement connu pour Si c’est un homme (1947), où il raconte son expérience dans le camp d’Auschwitz. Quarante ans après, en 1986, il publie Les naufragés et les rescapés, où il se pose de nouvelles questions concernant le camp, contre les risques de simplification et d’oubli. Ce livre est lié au concept de zone grise, un terme que Levi lui-même a forgé et qui est e...

Levi A

A novel approach to “direct-write” negative nano-lithography, based on biological specificity, where a proteolytic enzyme is used to etch grooves in a hardened protein layer. We are using trypsin to engrave features in a BSA layer, while flowing the trypsin solution via a nano-pipette (controlled by a SPM) to the surface. Trypsin is a proteolytic enzyme that cleaves very specifically on the car...

Summer Camps

thousand. Four years later there were about two hundred camps in existence, and five thousand boys were in the field. The number has increased steadily and rapidly in the last five years. Five years ago about ten thousand boys received the benefit of outdoor life during the summer months. During the past season, 1907, there were between four and five hundred summer camps, and about twenty-five ...

L’importanza di essere primo

I numeri primi sono spesso considerati enti “astratti” di interesse esclusivamente matematico. Scopo di questo saggio è la discussione di alcune proprietà dei numeri primi che hanno trovato importantissime applicazioni pratiche con l’avvento della crittografia a chiave pubblica negli anni ’70 e con la diffusione di Internet e del commercio elettronico di questi ultimi anni. Ci occuperemo di alc...

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