For over a century, a priceless piece of mathematical history has been hiding in plain sight. Deep within the archives of a ...
A lost page of the Archimedes Palimpsest containing work on the sphere and cylinder has been identified in France.
The Archimedes Palimpsest is a 10th-century Byzantine Greek manuscript that was overwritten in the 13th century with a Christian liturgical text. This practice of creating a palimpsest, or a reused ...