Parece particularmente interessante esta parte: "Reviel Netz, a historian of mathematics at Stanford University, discovered by reading the “Method of Mechanical Theorems” that Archimedes treated infinity as a number, which constituted something of a philosophical leap. Netz was also the first scholar to do a thorough study of the diagrams, which he says are likely to be faithful reproductions of the author’s original drawings and give crucial insights into his thinking."
JM 2011/10/7 psdias2 <[email protected]>: > Definição de "palimpsesto": > > Pergaminho ou papiro cujo manuscrito foi raspado para ser substituído por um > novo texto. > Debaixo deste tem-se às vezes conseguido fazer reaparecer os caracteres > anteriores mediante técnicas especiais. > > Pois vejam isto: > www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=a-tale-of-math-treasure > > Paulo > _______________________________________________ > Logica-l mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.dimap.ufrn.br/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/logica-l > -- http://sequiturquodlibet.googlepages.com/ _______________________________________________ Logica-l mailing list [email protected] http://www.dimap.ufrn.br/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/logica-l
