THE METHOD

Few days back I happened to came across a mysterious story, about a lost book of Archimedes;
Well, thought it might be interesting..

"This thirteenth century prayer book contains erased texts that were written several centuries earlier still. These erased texts include two treatises by Archimedes that can be found nowhere else, The Method and Stomachion. The manuscript sold at auction to a private collector on the 29th October 1998."

'Under-text' of the recycled parchment was identified as the work of Archimedes. I was taken by owe as they were uncovering the underline text after two layers of text. After decrypting this text they find unbelievable geometrical discoveries achieved by this great man who lived 2000 years ago. These include the approximation of 'pi' and finding the volume of a sphere and the roots of the modern calculus techniques and the concept of infinity. This text referred as 'the method' shows you how to think, not just the facts itself. Basis off almost all sciences known to mankind is bolstered on mathematics.Wonder how today would have looked like if these discoveries were known 100 or even 10 years before they were known??



If anyone is interested, you can find about the palimpsest here.
http://www.archimedespalimpsest.org/

Books on the net
http://math.nyu.edu/~crorres/Archimedes/Books/ArchimedesInternet.html

Read 'The Method'online
http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924005730563#page/n5/mode/2up