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The Cattle Problem

two mathematical problems, in the form of an elegiac distichon, by Archimedes, which he posed to the scientists at Alexandria in a letter to Eratosthenes; the Greek text hand-set in AUGUSTIJN GRIEKS NO.2, a letter attributed to the famous letter designer Fleischman; the English translation facing the Greek text by Dr. H.W. Lenstra, professor of Mathematics at both Berkeley University and the University of Leyden, and Dr Steven Hillion, hand-set in a letter by Fleischman (1740), with a woodengraving by Peter Lazarov, printed from the block, printed in May 1999 in 150 copies on Lana-paper 250 g 16 pages 41 x 21,2 cm
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