Wholesale Archimedes of Syracuse

Author Stefano AmatoFormat 14.8x21cmPages: 96 ISBN 9788862422352 Who was Archimedes? The brilliant mathematician author of treatises still considered revolutionary today? Or the eccentric inventor so enthusiastic about solving an enigma to celebrate naked on the streets of Syracuse? The engineer who reluctantly designed innovative war machines capable of keeping the Roman army in check for years? Or the genius with his head in the clouds, however, able to calculate with surprising precision one of the first approximations of π in history?