Of current interest among historians
concerning Archimedes are the questions:
- How accurate are the current editions and translations of his work?
- What does the new reading of the Palimpsest tell us?
- How did Archimedes and others
of his contemporaries deal with mathematical diagrams?
A point of perpetual contention is
how to translate Archimedes'
mathematics for modern readers - how
closely to follow the original Greek,
and how much use to make of modern notation?
As far as I can see, Wikipedia treats none of these points.
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