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The Sand-Reckoner

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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.

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Gillian Bradshaw

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History Fiction Fiction, historical Fiction, historical, general Greece, fiction mathematicians Engineers Punischer Krieg

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