An American geologist, Don Swanson, disproved a dominant theory of volcanoes after reading the love affairs of Hawaiian gods. A musician poet, Fabrizio De André, sang the chemist that no, he did not want to marry. One writer, Stefan Zweig, has reinterpreted the metaphor of love at first sight in a story that is a masterpiece of sensuality. An English mathematician, Peter Backus, calculated the probability of finding a girlfriend ... and soon after he found her. A young Japanese man, Akihiko Kondo, has joined in marriage with a hologram. A book, this book, tells of the curiosities that link love to science with poetic, sentimental or humorous tones from time to time, because love, like science, always has different shades.

Paolo Gangemi, mathematician and science journalist, made his debut in creative dissemination in 2007 with "Insalate di mathematics 2", translated into French with the title "Salades de mathématiques". In 2010 he published Rome mathematics. Itineraries for people who want to “count”, written with Wilma Di Palma, and in 2014 her first e-book, "Macedonia of mathematics". Coming out of the mathematical field, two of his greatest successes are "Little book of curiosities about the world" of 2012, and "Little book of curiosities about science" of 2016. His latest books are "Stories of love and science" of 2020 and "THE MEASURES OF TIME" of 2021.