The Strangest Mathematician in History

The peculiar mind of Archimedes. Try https://brilliant.org/Newsthink/ for FREE for 30 days, and get 20% off your annual premium subscription. I highly recommend the book Eureka Man: The Life and Legacy of Archimedes by Alan Hirshfeld: https://a.co/d/iNRTMyP Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 1:19 Archimedes’ Early Life and Education 2:01 Archimedes’ Mathematical Achievements 4:25 Archimedes and Big Numbers 5:44 Lost Works and the Palimpsest 7:31 Archimedes’ Engineering and War Machines 8:30 The Fall of Syracuse and Archimedes’ Death 9:30 Today’s Sponsor: Brilliant Follow Newsthink on X https://x.com/Newsthink Newsthink is produced and presented by Cindy Pom https://x.com/cindypom Grab your Newsthink merch here: https://newsthink.creator-spring.com Support us on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/Newsthink Thank you to the The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland for supplying photos of Archimedes’ Palimpsest Sources: Animations of Archimedes’ famous screw and lever and earth: ZDF/Terra X/Group 5/ Susanne Utzt, Cristina Trebbi/ Jens Boeck, Dieter Stürmer / Fabian Wienke / Sebastian Martinez/ xkopp, polloq CC BY 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode.de Tomb of Archimedes: By Davide Mauro - Own work, CC BY 2.5 it, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3054538 Fields Medal: Stefan Zachow for the International Mathematical Union; retouched by King of Hearts, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons