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unusual facts about Fano


Fathi Hassan

Hassan has lived and worked in Italy since graduating in 1984, dividing his time between Milan and Fano.


Archibald Bower

After a novitiate of two years he went in 1712 to Fano, where he taught classics till 1714, when he moved to Fermo.

Bianchello del Metauro

The region lies on the western coast of Italy, close to Pesaro, and encompassing the towns of Fano and Senigallia.

Giovanni Aldobrandini

A member of the Aldobrandini family, Giovanni Aldobrandini was born in Fano in 1525, the son of Salvestro Aldobrandini, governor of Fano, and Lisa Donati.

Giovanni Battista Cavagna

He had been the architect of San Pietro in Valle, Fano and of the Sanctuary at Loreto.

Hanbury Brown and Twiss effect

A simple argument suggested by Ugo Fano Fano, 1961 captures the essence of the quantum explanation.

House of Malatesta

In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the Malatestas ruled over a number of cities in the Romagna and the Marche, including Pesaro, Fano, Cesena, Fossombrone and Cervia.

Leopoldo Elia

Born in Fano, Marche, he was judge of the Constitutional Court, in Carlo Azeglio Ciampi's government(1993 - 1994) was Minister for Reforms and briefly Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1994, when Beniamino Andreatta belong President of Popular Party parliamentary group.

Marche

In spite of the marine impoverishment, the sea has always furnished a plentiful supply of fish, the main fishing centres being Ancona, San Benedetto del Tronto, Fano and Civitanova Marche.

Miles Reid

Reid was awarded the Senior Berwick Prize in 2006 for his paper with Alessio Corti and Alexander Puklihkov, “Fano 3-fold hypersurfaces”, which made a big advance in the study of 3-dimensional algebraic varieties.

Ruspoli Regiment

After defending the cities of Pesaro and Fano where before the arrival of the regiment "the Germans were raiding, sacking the country around Imola, terrorising the inhabitants", the regiment assured the defence of the Gola del Furlo with cannons and artillery, preventing all enemy passage.

Saint Paternian

According to one legend, the inhabitants of Fano competed with those of Cervia for the body of the saint.

Sequential decoding

The famous Fano algorithm (named after Robert Fano) has a very low memory requirement and hence is suited to hardware implementations.

The Fano metric (named after Robert Fano) allows one to calculate from which is the best node to explore further.

Shannon–Fano coding

In the field of data compression, Shannon–Fano coding, named after Claude Shannon and Robert Fano, is a technique for constructing a prefix code based on a set of symbols and their probabilities (estimated or measured).


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