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1. Archimedes on mechanical and geometric methods - MacTutor History of…

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Archimedes_The_Method/

   7 Mar 2023: In the summer of 1906, J L Heiberg, professor of classical philology at the University of Copenhagen, discovered a 10th century manuscript which included Archimedes' work The method. ... books. Below we give an extract from the Introduction to The Method

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

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

   30 Dec 2023: Again Plutarch describes beautifully Archimedes attitude, yet we shall see later that Archimedes did in fact use some very practical methods to discover results from pure geometry:-. ... I G Basmakova, Differential methods in the works of Archimedes

3. THE SCHOOL OF ATHENS by Raphael Anaximander611 BC - ... PDF (1772k)

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Posters/raphael_poster.pdf

   20 Apr 2023: Pythagoras is shown surrounded by students(including a young Archimedes). Parmenidesabout: - 500 BC. ... Archimedes287 BC - 212 BC. Archimedes was the greatest mathematician of hisage.

4. Evangelista Torricelli PDF (870k)

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

   14 Apr 2021: In 1635, CAVALIERI's main work Geometrica indivisibilibus continuorum nova quadam ratione promota was published, in which he further developed methods of ARCHIMEDES and KEPLER. ... V V (which was already known to ARCHIMEDES). He performed calculations

5. Luca Valerio (1552 - 1618) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Valerio/

   7 Mar 2023: Died. 17 January 1618. Rome, Papal States (now Italy). Summary. Luca Valerio was an Italian mathematician who applied methods of Archimedes to find volumes and centres of gravity of solid bodies. ... written in 1603, applied methods of Archimedes to find

6. Knorr's papers - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Knorr_papers/

   12 Jul 2023: We will next show how to construct by plane methods alone a neusis satisfying conditions slightly weaker than those imposed by Archimedes, but still adequate for the purposes of SL, 18. ... This revised chronology can form the basis for addressing

7. 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. ... Due to the overarching theme of mathematical education and collaborations in this thesis, Geiser’s schoolbook Einleitung in die synthetische Geometrie is

8. Henri Léon Lebesgue English version PDF (495k)

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

   3 Mar 2021: The problem of determining the area of surfaces bounded by particular curves goes back at least to ARCHIMEDES, who devised extremely clever methods to determine such areas as the area under ... The precise conceptualization and proofs of this were given

9. Thabit (836 - 901) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Thabit/

   30 Dec 2023: An important consideration here is whether Thabit was familiar with the methods of Archimedes. ... Most authors (see for example [29]) believe that although Thabit was familiar with Archimedes' results on the quadrature of the parabola, he did not have

10. SOME IMPORTANT MATHEMATICIANS Euclid325 BC - 265 BC Euclid ... PDF (510k)

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Posters/important_poster.pdf

    13 Apr 2023: Archimedes287 BC - 212 BC. Archimedes was the greatest mathematician of hisage. ... His contributions in geometry revolutionised. the subject and his methods anticipated the integralcalculus.