Infinite secrets
(DVD) 

Originally produced in 2002; broadcast by PBS as a segment of the television program Nova on September 30, 2003.

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Edited by Stephanie Munroe, Ben Giles, Sam McHugh, Owen Tyler ; camera, Mike Garner, Martin Singleton, Mark Mayling, Chris Hartley ; research, Jenny Foster, Alicky Sussman.

Narrated by Jeremiah Kissel; commentators, Dr. William Noel, Dr. Chris Rorres, Alexander Jones, Nigel Wilson, Felix De Marez Oyens, Abigail Quandt, John Lowden, Keith Knox, Reviel Netz, Natalie Tchernetska.

Twenty-two centuries after Archimedes wrote his most revealing mathematical work, and eight centuries after a Christian monk erased what may have been the last surviving copy, the lost treatise has turned up and is being deciphered in a Baltimore museum. The Einstein of his era, Archimedes had a sophisticated understanding of mathematics, including infinity, and designed marvelous war machines for his native Syracuse. In a process Archimedes himself would have delighted to watch, his lost masterpiece is emerging, thanks to the marriage of chemistry, computers, and multispectral imaging. This film tells the story of the manuscript's amazing discovery, how modern technology is being used to read it, and its mathematically startling contents.

Not rated.

DVD; Dolby digital sound; letterbox presentation.

In English with optional English DVS [descriptive video service] for the visually impaired; closed-captioned.