«The Premio Peano is a prize awarded to the author of a book of “readable
mathematics” (it means not only popular mathematics”, but something more)
edited in Italian during the year of attribution.
The Premio Peano is the only award in Italy dedicated to this subject and
even if it is very young, it has a good reputation: the six winners before
you have been A. Doxiadis, A. Connes, K. Devlin, M. Livio, M. Du Sautoy,
P. Pesic, I. Stewart and D. O’Shea».
L’edizione in lingua inglese del libro di Israel e Millán Gasca è stata
recentemente pubblicata: The world as a mathematical game. John von
Neumann and 20th century science (Birkhäuser, 2009).