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1. Pictures of Archimedes - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Archimedes/pictdisplay/

   11 Jan 2024: The death of Archimedes depicted on a Roman floor mosaic. Painting by Andreas Strick.

2. Heinz Klaus Strick's histories - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Strick/

   1 May 2024: You can see the biographies indexed by postage stamps at THIS LINK.. Heinz Klaus Strick's Home page is at.

3. Archimedes (287 BC - 212 BC) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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   30 Dec 2023: S H Hollingdale, Archimedes of Syracuse : a tribute on the 22nd century of his death, Bulletin Institute of Mathematics and its Applications 25 (9) (1989), 217-225. ... S H Hollingdale, Archimedes of Syracuse : a tribute on the 22nd centenary of his death

4. Pappus on mechanics - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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   7 Mar 2023: Now some say that Archimedes of Syracuse mastered the principles and the theory of all these branches. ... But Carpus of Antioch says somewhere that Archimedes of Syracuse wrote only one book on a mechanical subject, that on sphere-construction, but did

5. Greeks poetry - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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   7 Mar 2023: Having made a collection of poems which were about, or mentioned, Isaac Newton, I [EFR] looked for poems which were about, or mentioned, Euclid and Archimedes. ... Call Archimedes from his buried tomb. Upon the plain of vanished Syracuse,.

6. Heinz Klaus Strick's biographies - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Strick/index2/

   1 May 2024: Click on a thumbnail to see the full image. Click on the name to go to Heinz Klaus Strick's biography.

7. Proclus on pure and applied mathematics - MacTutor History of…

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   7 Mar 2023: The science of mechanics embraces: (a) the manufacture of engines useful in war, for example, the engines of defence which Archimedes is said to have constructed against the besiegers of Syracuse; ... general, and of so-called centres of gravity; (d)

8. Archimedes Num An - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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   6 Jul 2023: of Syracuse is the undisputed leading figure. ... This saying of Archimedes is even more grandly laconic in Greek, in which it transliterates as the eight word sentence "dos moi pou stó kai kinó tén; gén;".

9. Stefanie Ursula Eminger PhD thesis PDF (4136k)

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Publications/Eminger.pdf

   1 Sep 2015: 6. Rudio as a Historian of Mathematics 193 6.1 Archimedes, Huygens, Lambert, Legendre 193. ... This is accompanied by a biography of Gysel. Chapter 6 contains analyses of some of Rudio’s most important works on the history of mathematics: the book

10. Aristarchus (310 BC - 230 BC) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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    30 Dec 2023: Archimedes having reported the views of Aristarchus, criticised those views as giving mathematically meaningless proportions. ... However, Archimedes quotes a value of. 1. 2. largefrac{1}{2}normalsize. 21 for the angle subtended by the sun and attributes