Subject: Re: [HM] Mathematics as Theater
From: James A. Landau (JJJRLandau@aol.com)
Date: Sun Apr 30 2000 - 20:10:51 EDT
If memory serves, the Czech playwright Karel Capek wrote a short
piece of fiction (only 2 or 3 pages, as I recall) about the death
of Archimedes. Capek used the idea (which he probably invented)
that Archimedes's death was not accidental. Instead a senior
Roman officer tried to talk Archimedes into joining the Roman
side, and killed him when he refused.
This fiction piece appeared in Clifton Fadiman's anthology
_Fantasia Mathematica_.
James A. Landau
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