The genius of Archimedes -- 23 centuries of influence on mathematics, science and engineering. Proceedings of an international conference, Syracuse, Italy, June 8--10, 2010. (Q1958413)

These Proceedings contain 38 contributions written by 54 authors dealing with all aspects of Archimedes's life, science, and scientific heritage up to the 19th century. They are gathered in six chapters: Legacy and influence in mathematics, Legacy and influence in engineering and mechanisms design, Legacy and influence in hydrostatics, Legacy and influence in philosophy, Legacy and influence in science and technology, Legacy and influence in teaching and history aspects. There is neither a subject nor a real name index. The so-called name index enumerates only the names of the authors. Relevant research literature remained unknown. Reviewer's remark: Unfortunately the volume has been carelessly edited. There are hundreds of linguistic mistakes, slips of the pen, repetitions of old mistakes etc. It might suffice to give some examples: ``We would like to express my grateful thanks'' (Preface p. VI), ``I want to get to describe a method\dots for cilindrical groins, hyperbole'' (p. 3), ``Treatrise, more simple integrals'' (p. 8); Archimedes's notion ``Ephodos'' does not (!) mean `method' but `approach' (p. 3, 23, 58 etc.), the Greek notion for method is `tropos' in Archimedes's famous letter to Eratosthenes; p. 21 ``opera Mathematics, quedam, vive versa, hoc metodo'' etc.; Greek words are falsely written (p. 48, 329, 434 etc.); p. 192 ``has special political significant, a magnum collection'' etc.; Archimedes's sections are not ``slices of infinitesimal width'' (p. 4) but non-quantities, that is indivisibles in the strict sense of the word etc. etc.