[B-Greek] Archimedes palimpsest "The Method" -- progress?

Ted Shoemaker tedsmath at yahoo.com
Tue Aug 3 20:07:38 EDT 2004


 
Hello,

I recently viewed a Nova video called 
"Infinite Secrets: The Genius of Archimedes".
Its story: In recent years, some previously unknown
writings of Archimedes of Syracuse (the famous
mathematician and scientist who ran shouting EURHKA
naked in the streets) were discovered, having been
obscured both by intentional obliteration and by mold.
 The Archimedes text has been called "The Method", as
it supposedly explains Archimedes' method for
mathematical discovery.

My questions: Does anyone know the status of the
restoration project to date?  How much of the text is
available to the public, either in Greek or
translation?
I am interested both as a student of Greek and of
math.

Thank you very much!

Ted Shoemaker


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