The Sand Reckoner of Archimedes by Archimedes

Classic Archimedes

The Sand Reckoner of Archimedes

Archimedes

12 pages digital

3 editions

nonfiction mathematics challenging informative medium-paced
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This short treatise of Archimedes on the amount of sand grains which could be contained in the ancient model of the universe is remarkable. It uses some extremely large numbers, given that this was antiquity and Europeans did not yet have the bene...

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