Title: Thinking About Mathematics (and Many Other Things): Archimedes and His World
Speaker: Professor John H. Conway
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Brief Description:
Special Note: Nemmers Prize Lectures #2
Abstract:
On Thursday, October 29, 1998 an 800 year-old manuscript containg many of Archimedes' works was sold for over $2 million at Christie's Auction House in New York. This lecture will be about this palimpsest and the work of Archimedes, the most outstanding mathematician and scientist among the ancient Greeks.Date: Tuesday, January 18, 2000