1) I went to an excellent talk on this tonight. This is great stuff! 2) Here's the web site http://archimedespalimpsest.org/ 3) Here's a photo of Stan Isaacs showing George Miller's stomachion puzzle replica to Nick Baxter and John Watson, just after the lecture http://www.flickr.com/photos/thane/206197024/ 4) Tomorrow, at 4pm Pacific (US time), there's a live webcast http://www.exploratorium.com/archimedes/index.html where they're going to reveal pages (perhaps even scanned in near-real time) Thane Plambeck http://www.plambeck.org/ehome.htm Simon Plouffe wrote:
This just came out,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5235894.stm
They found a way to read a old document with x-rays.
simon plouffe
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