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G. Dattoli, M. Artioli · ENEA Open Archive (National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development) · 2015
During the last years an effort has been put forward at ENEA aimed at developing a platform capable of editing scientific books in an interactive mode, namely with the option of modifying either the formulae and graphs. The idea, developed by the group UT-FIS-MAT, has been that of providing a scientific book equipped with an interactive software like MATHEMATICA allowing the elaboration of a smart text yielding the possibility of interacting with formulae, plots and the text itself, allowing the understanding of the level of confidence acquired by the reader. In recent times we have developed similar ideas to create a virtual laboratory dedicated to the design of particle accelerators and to Free Electron Lasers and this booklet is a further progress within such a direction. The text we have developed and dedicate to a not specifically scientific trained audience, includes iconographic and scientific material tailor suited for the goal of providing an effective tool illustrating the potentialities of the device and give an account of the historical evolution of a branch of mathematics usually not treated in the high school courses or/and at university level.