[PMCarey]

I'm glad Archimedes never met Michael Moore-he might have been too discouraged to write it down!

Or he might have discovered the works of Cantor 2000 years early.

[sonofatpatcher2]

Re "Or he might have discovered the works of Cantor 2000 years early."

Are your referring to Moritz Benedikt Cantor 1829 - 1920?

From 1860 Cantor lectured on the history of mathematics and became one of the leading German historians of mathematics at the end of the 19th Century. From http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Cantor_Moritz.html