[Daffynition]

The top layer of writing in this 700-year-old book describes Christian prayers. But underneath, almost obliterated, are the only surviving copies of many of the works of the ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes.
The owner of the Archimedes Palimpsest.

[Red Badger]

Dirty MATH book ping!........

[Red Badger]

...he had a more sophisticated understanding of the concept of infinity than anyone had realized.

A good concept of infinity is necessary for calculus, but also a good concept of zero is also, which would not come until the Arab mathematicians of the Dark Ages invented it........

[patton]

Can I ...um...borrow that book?

[JoeProBono]

[Darth Tokarev]

I remember reading a theory about just this subject years ago. Supposedly, he approached integration (sorry, unintentional derivative there) when he computed the formula for the volume of a sphere.

A Daedalus, Newton and an Einstein, all rolled into one.