Infinite Secrets: The Genius of Archimedes
A battered manuscript turns up after 1.000 years, revealing the mind of the great genius Archimedes
Twenty-two centuries after Archimedes wrote his most revealing mathematical work, and eight centuries after a Christian monk erased what may have been the last surviving copy, the lost treatise has turned up and is being deciphered in a Baltimore museum. “Infinite Secrets” reports the story of the manuscript’s amazing discovery and how modern technology is being used to read its startling contents.
Archimedes is famous for shouting “Eureka!” (Greek for “I have found it!”) on stepping into his … Ler mais
