Discover the Unconventional Genius of Archimedes 🧠

The peculiar mind of Archimedes. Try https://brilliant.org/Newsthink/ for FREE for 30 days, and get 20% off your annual premium subscription.

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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
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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