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June 2000
Complete table of contents

Selected Items:

The Origins of Mathematical Physics: New Light on an Old Question
A recently resurfaced tenth-century manuscript, the Archimedes Palimpsest, includes the sole extant copy of Archimedes’s treatise, the Method. As scholars begin study, new insights into Archimedes are emerging — Reviel Netz


Washington Reports
US and Russia quarrel over an old issue: missile defense, now dubbed ‘Star Wars Lite’

Physics Community
A new generation of gamma-ray telescopes prepares to plumb the nonthermal universe

Opinion
Teaching and propaganda — Mano Singham

 

 




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