Petr Beckmann

“The history of pi is only a small part of the history of mathematics, which itself is but a mirror of the…

— Petr Beckmann

“Aristotle, we are invariably told, was "antiquity's most brilliant intellect," and the explanation of this weird assertion, I believe, is best summarized…

— Petr Beckmann

“The architecture of the Colisseum and other places of Roman entertainment are difficult to judge without recalling what purpose they served. It…

— Petr Beckmann

“Then there is Roman engineering: the Roman roads, aqueducts, the Colosseum. Warfare, alas, has always been beneficial to engineering. Yet there are…

— Petr Beckmann

“Rome was not the first state of organized gangsterdom, nor was it the last; but it was the only one that managed…

— Petr Beckmann

“The Romans' contribution to science was mostly limited to butchering antiquity's greatest mathematician, burning the Library of Alexandria, and slowly stifling the…

— Petr Beckmann

“If we do not require a calendar to be geared to a tropical year (earth's orbit), but only that it be geared…

— Petr Beckmann

“The architecture of the thugs also differs from that of normal societies. It can often be recognized by the megalomaniacal style of…

— Petr Beckmann