Search

Filter

Results

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. 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.

3. Archimedes: "Quadrature of the parabola" - MacTutor History …

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

   7 Mar 2023: Archimedes to Dositheus greeting. When I heard that Conon, who was my friend in his lifetime, was dead, but that you were acquainted with Conon and withal versed in geometry, while ... conceded, so that it was recognised by most people that the problem

4. Archimedes Num An - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

   6 Jul 2023: The following three propositions are contained in Archimedes' book Measurement of the Circle. ... This is consistent with Archimedes' proposition (iii) above. Some analysis shows that the quantity.

5. All Glossary Items - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

   6 Jul 2023: Archimedes' screw consists of a pipe in the shape of a helix with its lower end dipped in the water. ... From 214 to 211 he served in Sicily, where, after a two-year siege, he took Syracuse in a siege in which Archimedes died.

6. Lunar features - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Honours/LunarFeatures0/

   11 Jul 2023: About 350 mathematicians in our archive have lunar features (mostly craters) named after them. You can see an account of how these features were named and links to files of whom they were called after. You can see a Wikipedia article on the feature

7. Archimedes album page

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Miller/Store/archimedes.html

   19 Nov 2023: Click on a thumbnail to see the full image. Nicaragua 1971. German Democratic Republic 1973. San Marino 1982. Turks and Caicos Islands 1992. Guinea-Bissau 2008.

8. FAQ - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Miscellaneous/faq/

   7 Mar 2023: So Archimedes and Lagrange were born in present-day Italy, Bolyai in Romania, Hilbert in Russia, etc.

9. 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.

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

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

    30 Dec 2023: Archimedes. in writing to King Hiero, whose friend and near relation he was. ... A Guzzo, Archimede (Italian), Filosofia 3 (1952), 149-168. E Hayashi, A reconstruction of the proof of Proposition 11 in Archimedes's method : proofs about the volume and