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The newly recovered 1000-year-old page from the Archimedes palimpsest. Credit: Blois, Musée des Beaux-Arts / IRHT-CNRS. For over a century, a priceless piece of mathematical history has been hiding in ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The missing page still has traces of geometric diagrams based on Greek mathematician Archimedes of Syracuse's work. Today, the ...