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1. Spiral of Archimedes - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

   7 Mar 2023: This spiral was studied by Archimedes in about 225 BC in a work On Spirals. ... y. y. y-axis. Taking the pole as the centre of inversion, the spiral of Archimedes.

2. Conon (280 BC - 220 BC) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

   7 Mar 2023: Died. about 220 BC. (possibly) Alexandria, Egypt. Summary. Conon of Samos was a Greek astronomer and mathematician who discovered the curve now known as the spiral of Archimedes. ... Pappus states that the curve now known as the spiral of Archimedes was

3. Interactive: Spiral of Archimedes - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Curves/Spiral/curvesapplet/

   7 Mar 2023: You can then drag the centre of the circle. Use the buttons on the right to move the graph or the ones in the middle to alter the scale. ... The buttons on the left can be used to alter the value of the parameter a.

4. Knorr's papers - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

   12 Jul 2023: Archimedes' neusis-constructions in spiral lines. Centaurus 22 (2) (1978/79), 77-98. In his theorems on the properties of the tangents drawn to the spirals (Spiral Lines, prop. ... and the introduction of auxiliary solids - formed the basis of Archimedes'

5. Squaring the circle - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

   18 Jan 2024: Now Archimedes is famed for his introduction of the spiral curve, but why did he introduced this curve? ... Archimedes gives the following definition of the spiral in his work On spirals (see [5] for example):-.

6. Correspondence about the Logarithmic Spirals - D'Arcy Thompson and…

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Projects/GowenlockTuminauskaite/chapter-3/

   7 Mar 2023: The logarithmic spiral differs from the more commonly seen Archimedes spiral where there is a constant distance between the whorls. ... Spiral of Archimedes. Equiangular Spiral. Correspondence about Coordinate Transformations). Correspondence about the

7. Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (S) -…

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Miller/mathword/s/

   6 Jul 2023: Littlewood in his 1925 article "On inequalities in the theory of functions," Proc. ... The derivative of the log-likelihood function played an important part in R.

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

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   30 Dec 2023: In On spirals Archimedes defines a spiral, he gives fundamental properties connecting the length of the radius vector with the angles through which it has revolved. ... History Exact Sci. 15 (2) (1975/76), 115-140. W R Knorr, Archimedes'

9. Pappus on the trisection of an angle - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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   7 Mar 2023: to a circle in Archimedes' work on the spiral. ... For in the latter case it is possible without the use of anything solid to prove Archimedes' theorem, viz., that the circumference of the circle traced at the first turn is

10. Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (H) -…

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Miller/mathword/h/

    7 Mar 2023: The term HELIX is due to Archimedes, "to a spiral already studied by his friendvol. ... 2, page 329). It is now known as the spiral of Archimedes.