Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from They Called Me Mad: Genius, Madness and the Scientists Who Pushed the Limits of Knowledge by John Monahan (on sale December 7 from Berkley). In it ...
A casual suggestion in a French office just rewrote a chapter of math history. Researcher Victor Gysembergh of France's CNRS says he has identified a long-missing page from the famed Archimedes ...
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A page long thought missing from the Archimedes Palimpsest has been identified at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Blois, France. A page long thought missing from the Archimedes Palimpsest has been ...
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