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Archimedes' short stories
In ancient Greece, the king had a crown made of pure gold, but he suspected that craftsmen had mixed silver in Wang Guanzhong. But the problem is that this crown is as heavy as the pure gold originally given to the goldsmith, and no one knows whether the goldsmith is playing tricks. The king handed this thorny problem to Archimedes and asked him not to destroy the crown.

What are we going to do? Archimedes has a hard time sleeping and thinking. He put forward many methods at first, but all failed. One day, he went to the bathhouse to take a bath. Just as he was sitting in the bathtub, he saw the water overflowing and felt his body being gently lifted. He suddenly realized that he jumped out of the bathtub and went straight to the palace, shouting "Eureka" (Greek, I know the meaning) all the way.

It turned out that he thought that if the crown was put into water, the amount of water released was not equal to the same weight of gold, and it must have been mixed with other metals.

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According to an ancient Greek manuscript lost for more than 2,000 years, American scientists found that as early as around 200 BC, the ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes discovered calculus and invented a special tool to help calculus calculation. Chris Roriz, an American scientist, said that if Archimedes's "lost manuscript" was discovered by the world 100 years earlier than Newton's, the scientific and technological progress of human beings might be 100 years earlier, and human beings might have landed on Mars by now.

It is reported that this lost Archimedes manuscript is now lying in the Waters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Abigail Kuhnt, an expert in the museum's preservation of precious ancient manuscripts, said in an interview with an American reporter: "In fact, this manuscript of Archimedes has been seriously damaged by mold. It is written on parchment. Some fungi have consumed some of the collagen on it, and the parchment has been seriously corroded and damaged-which means that it is one of Archimedes' manuscripts.

When the contents of Archimedes' manuscript were partially restored, scientists were stunned by the contents of the manuscript. In an article entitled "The Method of Mechanics Theorem", Archimedes actually expounded the essence of modern calculus theory: infinite concept! Obviously, Archimedes had made great discoveries in this field at that time.

As the scientific community knows, calculus was discovered by Newton in 1666. The world scientific community recognized that the year when calculus was discovered (1666) was the beginning of modern physics. American scientists will never believe that as early as the second century BC, the ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes was close to discovering the cornerstone of this "modern physics"!

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