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but unfortunately, his memory is pretty well shot. That is if you believe what he said in an article in this newspaper la§t week (“Pi Day, The Mathematician’s Holiday”).
It was I, not he, who sat in the tub of water and founded the field of hydrostatics. I was so excited I ran naked through the streets of Syracuse (part of Greece then) shouting, “Eureka! Eureka!”
If I did that today, men and women would faint, children would scream, birds would fall from the sky, and cattle would drop to the ground. I also worked diligently on pi,
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