WHERE THE PAST PEEKS INTO THE FUTURE
“Archimedes Palimpsest,” a 10th-century parchment document, has been rotting for hundreds of years, besides being erased and painted over numerous times. And lost. And rediscovered. On August 3, Uwe Bergmann, a physicist at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, spoke about his work at the Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory. It was a lecture that became a podcast that led me to this page, where some brighter-than-sun intense X-ray beams are now used to transcribe the Greek mathematician’s thoughts.
Archimedes Palimpsest
Wiki: Archimedes
WINNER: MATH AS ART
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