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  1. Time Line: 800BC-700AD

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Timelines/timelinea.html

    2 Jun 2021: Indian mathematicians are marked in red. Other non-Greek mathematicians are marked in blue. For the purposes of this diagram, if birth or death dates are not known, we have assigned a life span of 60 years. Go to the Timelines index. Scroll the

  2. Chronology for 500 - 900 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    7 Mar 2023: Eutocius of Ascalon writes commentaries on Archimedes' work. ... Eutocius writes commentaries on the works of Archimedes anda mathematician of note, is the architect for the Hagia Sophia at Constantinople.

  3. Archimedes on statics - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    7 Mar 2023: In On the Equilibrium of Planes, Archimedes discusses statics and the law of the lever in Book I, Postulates and Propositions. ... In the following extract Archimedes writes:-. I postulate the following:. 1.

  4. - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    7 Mar 2023: Péter Kőrtesi (University of Miskolc), The Temesvár letter anniversary. Michael Lambrou (University of Crete), Surprise invited lecture: Heuristics to gain foreknowledge or why did Archimedes say he is doing "no small

  5. Italian Academy of Sciences - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    7 Mar 2023: Giuseppe Torelli (1721-1781). A mathematician and literary man, he worked at Verona and produced an important translation of works by Archimedes.

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

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    7 Mar 2023: Polar equation:. r. =. a. θ. r = a theta. r=aθ. Click on the Curve menu to choose one of the associated curves. Then click on the diagram to choose a point for the involutes, pedal curve, etc. You can then move the point around and watch the

  7. Greeks poetry - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    7 Mar 2023: Finally we give two "Archimedes poems". 7. Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805): Archimedes. ... This extract is from the Eighth Book: The Parsonage. Wordsworth is the only poet in our collection who mentions Newton, Euclid and Archimedes in poems.

  8. Most popular biographies – 2024 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    8 Jan 2024: Of our 3150 biographies, those below are the 200 which were consulted most often in the last three months. These numbers were compiled in January 2024. The number in [brackets] was the position last time we carried out this exercise in 2018 (See

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

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    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

  10. Archimedes English version PDF (486k)

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    3 Mar 2021: Heinz Klaus Strick Leverkusen, p. 1 / 5. ARCHIMEDES OF SYRACUSE (287-212 BC). ... by Heinz Klaus Strick, Germany. ARCHIMEDES is considered the most important mathematician and.