Math Saga
Envious of his mathematical prowess, the Olympian gods send Calculus on a journey to complete 15 tasks. He must solve tricky equations, logical puzzles and algebraic riddles – if he fails, he’ll end up in the underworld. Can you help the Greek boffin on his odyssey?
Not only did the ancient Greeks already know that the Earth was a sphere – in 240 BCE, Eratosthenes of Cyrene compared the length of shadows in two different places at noon and used the difference to calculate the circumference of the Earth with astonishing accuracy.