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Intriguing... [Diacu's] account is at its best when he wrestles with the many contradictions of both the accepted and revisionist chronologies... He wades into celestial mechanics with a dizzying discussion of eclipses, astronomical calculations, and algebraic formulas. --The Globe and Mail Diacu gives both sides of the argument fairly but the mere idea that the calendar may be out by as much as 1,000 years is staggering. --The London Free Press Diacu, a polyglot and erudite mathematician, lays out old and recent debates with great clarity and offers the first detailed account for nonspecialists of the radical revisionist theories of Anatoli Fomenko and his colleagues. His book--like most of those he describes--will certainly become a flash point in its own right. For the general reader, it offers a fascinating look at an unknown world. --Anthony Grafton, Princeton University

<p>Diacu, a polyglot and erudite mathematician, lays out old and recent debates with great clarity and offers the first detailed account for nonspecialists of the radical revisionist theories of Anatoli Fomenko and his colleagues. His book--like most of those he describes--will certainly become a flash point in its own right. For the general reader, it offers a fascinating look at an unknown world.--Anthony Grafton, Princeton University

Diacu gives both sides of the argument fairly but the mere idea that the calendar may be out by as much as 1,000 years is staggering. --The London Free Press Diacu, a polyglot and erudite mathematician, lays out old and recent debates with great clarity and offers the first detailed account for nonspecialists of the radical revisionist theories of Anatoli Fomenko and his colleagues. His book--like most of those he describes--will certainly become a flash point in its own right. For the general reader, it offers a fascinating look at an unknown world. --Anthony Grafton, Princeton University Intriguing . . . [Diacu's] account is at its best when he wrestles with the many contradictions of both the accepted and revisionist chronologies . . . He wades into celestial mechanics with a dizzying discussion of eclipses, astronomical calculations, and algebraic formulas. --The Globe and Mail

Diacu, a polyglot and erudite mathematician, lays out old and recent debates with great clarity and offers the first detailed account for nonspecialists of the radical revisionist theories of Anatoli Fomenko and his colleagues. His book--like most of those he describes--will certainly become a flash point in its own right. For the general reader, it offers a fascinating look at an unknown world.--Anthony Grafton, Princeton University

Diacu, a polyglot and erudite mathematician, lays out old and recent debates with great clarity and offers the first detailed account for nonspecialists of the radical revisionist theories of Anatoli Fomenko and his colleagues. His book--like most of those he describes--will certainly become a flash point in its own right. For the general reader, it offers a fascinating look at an unknown world.</p>--Anthony Grafton, Princeton University

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Florin Diacu is a professor of mathematics at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, author of Megadisasters: The Science of Predicting the Next Catastrophe; Singularities of the N-body Problem: An Introduction to Celestial Mechanics; and An Introduction to Differential Equations: Order and Chaos, and coauthor of Celestial Encounters: The Origins of Chaos and Stability.

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