Title: The Sand-Reckoner
Description: Young Archimedes is recalled home from his studies to Syracuse, where his father lies ill and the city is at war with the Romans, in a fictional portrait of the Greek mathematician and one of the world's most creative thinkers.
Subjects: Fiction, historical, Fiction, Mathematicians, History, Engineers, Fiction, historical, general, Greece, fiction, Punischer Krieg
Places: Syrakus
People: Archimedes (v287-v212)