If the ordinar y person were asked to say off-hand what he knew of Archimedes, he would probably, at the most, be able to quote one or other of the well-known stories about him: how, after discovering the solution of some problem in the bath, he was so overjoyed that he ran naked to his house, shouting epsilon;ὕrho;eta;kappa;alpha;, epsilon;ὕrho;eta;kappa;alpha; (or, as we might say, ldquo;Ive got it, Ive got itrdquo;); or how he said ldquo;Give me a place to stand on and I will move the earthrdquo;; or again how he was killed, at the capture of Syracuse in the Second Punic War, by a Roman soldier who resented being told to get away from a diagram drawn on the ground which he was studying.nbsp;ldquo;
