Podem ler "The Archimedes Codex, How a Medieval Prayer Book Is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity’s Greatest Scientist" de Reviel Netz e William Noel (um best seller) ou podem assistir o documentário da NOVA: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/physics/inside-archimedes-palimpsest.html :-) para fazer turismo na história da matemática, ou um safári para caçar o infinito atual em Arquimedes. Que emocionante!
Essa história romanceada é, lamentavelmente, mais popular que a história da matemática feita seriamente. Mathematics Magazine, vol. 81, n. 1, 2008, p. 70. "It is an absolutely fascinating tale of the rescue and significance of what Noel terms a "conservation disaster zone," with far more details on the provenance of the book than previously revealed." Na p. 183 do próprio livro lemos: Archimedes’ Method, 2001 or Infinity Unveiled It was nearing the end of 2000. The Palimpsest had been available for research for almost two years, and yet, there was very little to show for it. I was driven back to the traditional routines of library work: visiting the manuscript; holding a magnifying glass in one hand and a UV lamp in the other; and looking at the manuscript intently, one character after another. I envisaged myself doing just this - slowly and painfully going through the manuscript. To be honest, though, I wasn’t sure I would be able to read much more this way than Heiberg did. Would it all be just a waste of time? Apesar de todas essas coisas, é claro que Arquimedes merece estudos sérios. Carlos =========================================== http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%28archimedes%29 ========================================== "The Archimedes Codex, How a Medieval Prayer Book Is Revealing the True Genius of Antiquity’s Greatest Scientist" de Reviel Netz e William Noel ¨ REVIEWED BY JORAN FRIBERG The Mathematical Ingelligencer, vol. 31, n. 4, 2009, p. 53-55 [3] Netz, R., F. Acerbi, and N. Wilson, Towards a reconstruction of Archimedes’s Stomachion, Sciamvs 2 (2001), 67–99. [4] Netz, R., K. Saito, and N. Tchernetska, A new reading of Method proposition 14: Preliminary evidence from the Archime- des Palimpsest, Part 1, Sciamvs 2 (2001), 9–29. [5] Netz, R., K. Saito, and N. Tchernetska, A new reading of Method proposition 14: Preliminary evidence from the Archime- des Palimpsest, Part 2, Sciamvs 3 (2002), 109–125. 2011/10/8 psdias2 <[email protected]>: >>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]> > > Em outra lista, informaram sobre o livro "CODEX ARQUIMEDES": > > http://www.livrariacultura.com.br/scripts/resenha/resenha.asp?nitem=2718787&sid=10116023513107775565419818 > > Talvez lá o Reviel Netz exponha mais detalhes... > > Paulo > _______________________________________________ > Logica-l mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.dimap.ufrn.br/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/logica-l > _______________________________________________ Logica-l mailing list [email protected] http://www.dimap.ufrn.br/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/logica-l
