Angelo A. Mazzotti

GAMES

Games and puzzles

• Creation of the board game 3 & 4: THE GAME (designed by Sophie Püschmann).
• Creation of the board game DIE VERRUECKTE SCHÜLERZEITUNG (designed by Sophie Püschmann).
• Creation of the board game VITA (designed by Sophie Püschmann).
• Creation of the board game IN-KUBUS (designed by Sophie Püschmann).
• Creation of the board game CONTATTO! (designed by Sophie Püschmann).
• Invention of a Game Application called Polycentrics (patented) for smartphones and tablets (in progress).
• Creation of the table game Il Filmimo on films (patented), together with Luciano Benvenuto (for the prototype) and Annalisa De Rose (for the marketing).
• Creation of crossword puzzles and other puzzles for private use.
• Invention of a way of playing the card game Buraco as a tournament for 5 or 6 players.
• Organisation of tournaments.
• Invention of a Rome-based board for the game Risk! (prototype by Andrea Lupi).
• Contribution to the marketing of the table game Il Grande Gioco del Golf by Luciano Benvenuto, together with Luisa d'Agostino and Annalisa De Rose.
• Coordination for the Di Vittorio–Lattanzio school of the student mathematics games Olimpiadi della Matematica and Kangourou della Matematica.

My Resume

Education

Titles

• Liceo Scientifico “Tullio Levi-Civita”

  June - Nov 2000

  Training and final exam to be a Mathematics and Physics teacher in the Italian public education system.

• Università degli studi di Roma "La Sapienza"

  1990 – 1994

  Dottorato di Ricerca (PhD) in OPERATIONS RESEARCH.

• 1992

  Winner of a position as Mathematics teacher in high school having passed written and oral examinations.

• Università degli studi di Roma “La Sapienza”

  1984 – 1989

  Laurea (BAC+1) in MATHEMATICS, with final mark of 110/110 cum laude.

Grants and scholarships

• State University of New York, USA

  1992-1993

  One year scholarship at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics in Stony Brook as visiting student NY – USA.

• Rome

  1990 – 1991

  10-month grant at the Istituto Nazionale di Alta Matematica (INDAM)

Work Experience as mathematician

• Mathematics consulting for freelance professionals

• Teaching of Mathematics and basic Computer Science skills (since 1999) and coordination of the project "Polisportiva Matematici" preparing students to participate in mathematics competitions (since 2009) at the school ITIS "Lattanzio" in Rome

• Teaching of Mathematics and basic Computer Science skills at the school IPSIA "T.Minniti" in Guidonia (1993 - 1999)

• Private lessons in Mathematics for university and high school students

Written and published material

• All Sides to an Oval. Properties, Parameters and Borromini's Mysterious Construction. 2nd edition

  2019

  Published by Springer.

• L'emancipazione dell'ovale.

  Aug 1st 2017

  Published on Galileo – Online scientific journal.

• All Sides to an Oval. Properties, Parameters and Borromini's Mysterious Construction.

  2017

  Published by Springer.

• A Euclidean approach to eggs and polycentric curves.

  2014

  Published in Nexus Network J. 16: 345-387.

• What Borromini might have known about ovals. Ruler and compass constructions.

  2014

  Published in Nexus Network J. 16: 389-415.

• Asymptotic eigenvalue degeneracy for a class of three-dimensional Fokker-Planck operators.

  1995

  With A.Carlini, M.C.Recchioni e F.Zirilli - on J.Math.Phys. 36.

• Processi di diffusione riflessi e ottimizzazione globale in un dominio.

  1994

  PhD Thesis.

• L’uso dei metodi per la ottimizzazione nonlineare nel problema della programmazione lineare.

  1989

  BA Thesis.

Games and puzzles

• Creation of the table game Contatto!
• Invention of a Game Application called Polycentrics (patented) for smartphones and tablets (in progress).
• Creation of the table game Il Filmimo on films (patented), together with Luciano Benvenuto (for the prototype) and Annalisa De Rose (for the marketing).
• Creation of crossword puzzles and other puzzles for private use.
• Invention of a way of playing the card game Buraco as a tournament for 5 or 6 players.
• Organisation of tournaments.
• Invention of a Rome-based board for the game Risk! (prototype by Andrea Lupi).
• Contribution to the marketing of the table game Il Grande Gioco del Golf by Luciano Benvenuto, together with Luisa d'Agostino and Annalisa De Rose.
• Coordination for the Di Vittorio–Lattanzio school of the student mathematics games Olimpiadi della Matematica and Kangourou della Matematica.

Personal Competences

Languages

• Italian (mother tongue)
• English (excellent) – C2 certificate
• German (very good) – C1 certificate
• French (good) – eight-year course in public school

Artistic (see also www.angelomazzotti.eu)

• Jazz singing since 2005 (Scuola Popolare di Musica di Testaccio). Classes, workshops, concerts in Italy and in Germany (Berlin)
• Writing of songs or just lyrics in Italian, English and German (since 2008).
• Choir singing since 1983 (CIMA, AMPEM, Todavìa Canta, Sacri Montis, TJazzVoices, Fleeting Glance and ANKA Vocal Band choirs)
• Pop and rock singing since 1985 (concerts in Rome with Penta and Tonic band)
• Folk guitar and singing since 1983 (self-taught). Concerts in Rome and in Germany
• Basic level of piano (SPMT), harmonica, electric bass, percussions.
• Dancing, coreographing and teaching of Tango Argentino from 1996 (studied mainly at the Centro del Tango Argentino “Astor Piazzolla” in Rome). National-TV shows and theatre shows.
• Direction and writing of a theatre musical (Un suono da marciapiede in 1992 at the Teatro de’ Servi in Rome)
• Workshops and/or classes of: acting, modern dancing, circus, swing dance and salsa dance

Computer

• Good level: Geogebra, spreadsheets, word processing, music writing software, search motors
• Basic level: image and audio processing
• Basic level programming: Basic, Fortran, Simscript, Pascal, C++

Organisation and social competences

• Accustomed to working in groups and to collaborating
• Organising groups and communicating