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Maths-Science Theatre Performance
21.11.2016
We had the oppor-
tunity to watch a play
about the
“Discoveries of Ar-
chimedes” per-
formed by the stu-
dents of the Saint
Georgios Lyceum
Lakatamia. The thea-
ter was performed in
Greek with simulta-
neous translation in
English through com-
puter subtitles. It was very interesting and
well executed.
The scene in which
Archimedes was
asked to determine
whether a crown was
solid gold was also
shown. Archimedes
made his legendary
discovery that a solid
displaces a volume of
liquid equal to its own
volume, supposedly
causing him to leap
from his bath and run
naked through the streets crying
"Eureka!" (I have
found it).
Archimedes was
killed by a Roman sol-
dier during the con-
quest of the city in
212 B.C., which gave
Rome dominion over
all of Sicily.
The public followed
the play with great
interest.
Archimedes of Syra-
cuse was one of his-
tory's foremost scien-
tists and inventors.
More than a millenni-
um ahead of its time,
his work laid the
foundation for
branches of mathe-
matics, physics and
engineering. The stu-
dents explained his
achievements range
from calculating a re-
markably accurate
approximation
for pi number.
the Portuguese team
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