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Matemática / Ciência e Tecnologia / Vídeo / RTP Ensina

Porque Arquimedes gritou “Eureka”

O AB Ciência recria, numa experiência, este princípio com mais de dois mil anos

Arquimedes estava no banho quando lhe ocorreu a solução para um problema que estava a resolver. Saiu a correr pelas ruas, nu, gritando “Eureka” (descobri) e ficava para a história o nascimento do princípio de Arquimedes. O AB Ciência recria, numa experiência, este princípio com mais de dois … Ler mais

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Matemática / Ciência e Tecnologia / Divulgação / Vídeo

VideoMath Festival

An International Video Festival at The International Congress of Mathematicians 1998

The VideoMath festival is being held on the occasion of ICM’98, the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin. It is the first festival dedicated to videos concerning mathematics. The videos were selected by an international jury in a worldwide competition. They target a general audience interested in popular science, mathematical topics, and applications of mathematics in everyday life.

This reel comprises the 24 winners of the worldwide VideoMath competition. The entries have been selected by the jury on basis … Ler mais

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Divulgação / Vídeo

The History of the Archimedes Palimpsest

At 2pm on October 29th, 1998, at Christie’s auction house in New York, a very special old book was sold to an anonymous collector for $2,000,000

At 2pm on October 29th, 1998, at Christie’s auction house in New York, a very special old book was sold to an anonymous collector for $2,000,000. This collector deposited the manuscript at The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore in order to conserve it, image it, and study it.

The book is special because it contains seven treatises by the ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes. Two of these treatises, The Stomachion and The Method exist nowhere else in the world. This … Ler mais

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Ciência e Tecnologia / Vídeo

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