Did Plutarch Get Archimedes' Wishes Right?

Les Lange, Fellow of the California Academy of Sciences, Special Advisor to the Director of the Moss Landing Marine Laboratories on Monterey Bay, is Emeritus Professor of Mathe? matics and Emeritus Dean of Science of San Jose State Univer? sity. He learned mathematics at Berkeley, Valparaiso, Stanford (M.S. with George Polya), and Notre Dame (Ph.D. with Wladimir Seidel). He shared an MAA Lester R. Ford Sr. Award with Don Chakerian for a geometry paper, and an MAA George Polya Award with James W. Miller for a linear algebra paper. With G. L. Alexanderson he wrote the London Mathematical Society's extensive Polya obituary.