naturalplastic wrote:
The glory of the ancient geeks?
Maybe Pythagoras.
His home was stormed by a Roman soldier when the city fell to the Romans. He told the intruder not to bother him until the geometrician finished solving his dodecahedron problem. The soldier hacked him to death with his sword. Most NTs, even mathematicians, back then would have had the street smarts not to brush off an angry Roman soldier like that. Oh well.
You cant really diagnose anyone in the past.
But besides Pythagoras there arent many figures that we know enough about personally to even suspect that they were even strong contenders to be aspies until we get to Isaac Newton in the late 1600's.
I think you're thinking of Archimedes...
24 Mar 2015, 6:12 pm
