Posted on 10/10/2007 5:15:21 AM PDT by Renfield
A long-lost text by the ancient Greek mathematician shows that he had begun to discover the principles of calculus.
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An intensive research effort over the last nine years has led to the decoding of much of the almost-obliterated Greek text. The results were more revolutionary than anyone had expected. The researchers have discovered that Archimedes was working out principles that, centuries later, would form the heart of calculus and that he had a more sophisticated understanding of the concept of infinity than anyone had realized.
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