Sir Thomas Heath, the great editor and translator of Greek mathematics, distils a lifetime’s scholarship into this short life of Archimedes: the spirals and the sand-reckoner, the quadrature of the parabola, the hydrostatics that produced the immortal ‘Eureka’, and the war-engines that held Roman Syracuse at bay until a soldier’s sword ended the story.
Nobody has ever written about Greek mathematics with more authority, and Heath’s admiration for his subject glows through the compression. Download the free EPUB and spend an hour with the man who asked only for a place to stand.