Gianni A. Sarcone is a writer and an author of columns and articles for newspapers and magazines featuring visual puzzles and math brainteasers. He is a contributing editor to 'Focus Giochi' (Italy) and 'Magia' (Italy). He is also a designer and a researcher with more than seventeen years of experience in the fields of visual creativity, recreational mathematics and educational games.

G. Sarcone has written and published several educational text books and illustrated books in English, French and Italian on perceptive puzzles and on the mechanism of vision. He is the founder of Archimedes' LaboratoryTM a consulting network of experts specializing in improving and developing creativity - for which he has been commended with a long list of accolades and awards, including the Scientific American 2003 Sci/Tech Web Award in MATHEMATICS and received recognition in the U.S.A. from: CNN Headline News,
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), NewScientist.com, etc.

He has appeared on several national and international television programs, including 'Rai 3' Italy, 'RTL 9 Channel' France, 'TSR 1 Channel' Switzerland, and 'TVRL Channel' Switzerland.

REFERENCES

Books written by the G. Sarcone:
'Big Book of Optical Illusions', Barron's Educational Series, 2006, ISBN
0764135201.
'Fantastic Optical Illusions', Carlton Books, 2006, ISBN 184442295X.
'New Optical Illusions', Carlton Books, London, 2005, ISBN 1844423271,
translated into French ('Nouvelles illusions d¬πoptique'), into German
('Optische Illusionen') and into Dutch ('Nieuwe optische illusies').
'MateMagica. Giochi d'ingegno con la matematica', La Meridiana, Molfetta,
Italy, 2005, ISBN 8889197560.
'Dazzling Optical Illusions', Sterling Publishing Co. Inc., New York, USA,
2002, ISBN 0806983930.
'L'Almanach du mathématicien en herbe', Editions Archimède, Paris, France,
2002, ISBN 2844690254.
'La Couleur dans tous ses états', Yva Peyret Ed., Paris, France, 1999, ISBN
283080029X.

Games and Puzzles designed by G. Sarcone:
'3-D Geometrex', Tangoes/Rex Games, San Francisco, USA, 2000, ISBN
1887854258.
'Geometrex Incredible Puzzles', Rex Games, San Francisco, USA, 1998, ISBN
1887854096.
'TangraMagic', Tessellations, Tempe, USA, 1998.
'Kami Color Cards', Yva Peyret Ed., Paris, France, 1995.