Archimedes
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This just in … the Register is marking Archimedes’ birthday (2300 … just the year, exact date unknown) with a lengthy feature, noteworthy for printing Greek in a non-Greek newspaper, if nothing else (I think this is Doric too!). In any event, here’s the first couple of paragraphs: Happy birthday Archimedes! The Syracusan mathematician, engineer…
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From Greek Reporter: After ten years of work, involving the expertise and goodwill of an extraordinary number of people working around the globe, the Archimedes Palimpsest Project has released its data. It is a historic data-set, revealing new texts from the ancient world. A complete facsimile of the revealed palimpsested texts is available on Googlebooks…
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Interesting item from a Stanford press release: Like novelists, mathematicians are creative authors. With diagrams, symbolism, metaphor, double entendre and elements of surprise, a good proof reads like a good story. Reviel Netz, a professor of classics and, by courtesy, of philosophy, is especially interested in exploring the literary dimensions of the textual artifacts left…
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