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1. Mathematical games - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Mathematical_games/

   10 Jul 2023: Perhaps the most famous are from Archimedes in his book The Sandreckoner where he gives the Cattle Problem. ... The game of pentominoes is of more recent invention. The problem of tiling an 8 8 square with a square hole in the centre was solved in 1935.

2. Dubreil-Jacotin on Sophie Germain - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Dubreil-Jacotin_Germain/

   7 Mar 2023: She thus read that Archimedes was killed by Roman soldiers because, entirely absorbed in the study of a problem, he was unaware of the capture of Syracuse and did not answer ... by the memory of Archimedes' death, began to fear for the scholar and wrote

3. Cissoid of Diocles - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Curves/Cissoid/

   7 Mar 2023: He studied the cissoid in his attempt to solve the problem of finding the length of the side of a cube having volume twice that of a given cube. ... He also studied the problem of Archimedes to cut a sphere by a plane in such a way that the volumes of

4. Diocles (240 BC - 180 BC) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

   7 Mar 2023: It is also recorded that he studied the problem of Archimedes to cut a sphere by a plane in such a way that the volumes of the segments shall have a ... The problem of Archimedes to cut a sphere in a given ratio which was known to be in the work through

5. 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 ... Heinz Klaus Strick Leverkusen, p. 2 / 4. ISAAC NEWTON and

6. al-Mahani (820 - 880) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Al-Mahani/

   3 Jul 2023: Died. 880. Baghdad, Iraq. Summary. Al-Mahani was an Islamic mathematician who tried to solve some of Archimedes' problems on cutting up spheres. ... The problem of Archimedes which he attempted to solve in a novel way was that of cutting a sphere by a

7. Cajori history - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

   7 Mar 2023: The circle-squarers have existed in crowds ever since the period of Archimedes. ... very simple problem of the trisection of an angle.

8. Squaring the circle - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Squaring_the_circle/

   18 Jan 2024: Next we should consider the contributions of Archimedes to the problem of squaring the circle. ... O. P. OP. OP. Now it may not be clear that this is solved the problem of squaring the circle but Archimedes had already proved as the first proposition of

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. Eutocius (480 - 540) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: Died. about 540. Summary. Eutocius was a Greek mathematician who wrote commentaries on works of Archimedes and Apollonius. ... R Lorch, The Arabic transmission of Archimedes' 'Sphere and cylinder' and Eutocius' commentary, Z.