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==Other interests== Bombieri, accomplished also in the arts, explored for wild orchids and other plants as a hobby in the Alps when a young man.<ref>[http://www.italyonthisday.com/2018/11/enrico-bombieri-mathematician.html Bombieri β Mathematician] retrieved 10 February 2020</ref> {{blockquote|With his powder-blue shirt open at the neck, khaki pants and running shoes, he might pass for an Italian film director at Cannes. Married with a grown daughter, he is a gourmet cook and a serious painter: He carries his paints and brushes with him whenever he travels. Still, mathematics never seems far from his mind. In a recent painting, Bombieri, a one-time member of the [[Cambridge University]] chess team, depicts a giant chessboard by a lake. He's placed the pieces to reflect a critical point in the historic match in which [[IBM]]'s chess-playing computers, [[Deep Blue (chess computer)|Deep Blue]], beat [[Garry Kasparov]].<ref>{{cite news|author=Birch, Douglas|title=Lifelong pursuit of mathematical pursuit Professor: At 15, Enrico Bombieri picked up a book on number theory that introduced him to the fiendishly puzzling Riemann Hypothesis. He was hooked|newspaper=The Baltimore Sun|date=30 September 1998|url=http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1998-09-30/news/1998273107_1_riemann-hypothesis-mathematician-david-hilbert|access-date=2015-10-12|archive-date=2015-10-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151029042833/http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1998-09-30/news/1998273107_1_riemann-hypothesis-mathematician-david-hilbert|url-status=dead}}</ref>}}
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