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  1. Jeff Miller's postage stamps - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Miller/stamps/

    1 May 2024: ARCHIMEDES Issued by Spain in 1963 arch5. ... The painting 'Archimedes' is by Domenico Fetti arch1.

  2. Chronology for 500 BC - 1 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Chronology/2/

    7 Mar 2023: He also proposes that the Earth orbits the Sun. In On the Sphere and the Cylinder, Archimedes gives the formulae for calculating the volume of a sphere and a cylinder. ... In Floating Bodies he presents what is now called "Archimedes' principle" and

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

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

    7 Mar 2023: It is thought that the first of Eutocius's commentaries on Archimedes was written around 510. ... R Lorch, The Arabic transmission of Archimedes' 'Sphere and cylinder' and Eutocius' commentary, Z.

  4. 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. ... Archimedes also invented a division of a square into 14 pieces leading to a game similar to Tangrams involving making figures from the 14

  5. Heinz Klaus Strick's biographies - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Strick/index2/

    1 May 2024: Click on a thumbnail to see the full image. Click on the name to go to Heinz Klaus Strick's biography.

  6. Cissoid of Diocles - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: He also 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 given ratio. ... It is in commentaries on Archimedes' On the sphere and the cylinder that the cissoid appears and is

  7. Other mathematical stamps - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Miller/other_stamps/

    25 Apr 2024: Issued by Italy in 2013, to commemorate the Year of Archimedes pi. ... formula8 (Archimedes' principle).

  8. Encyclopaedia Britannica biographies - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    22 May 2023: Below is a list of mathematicians with biographies in the Encyclopaedia Britannica as well as in our archive. Click on a name to go to the Encyclopaedia biography.

  9. Chronology for 900 - 1100 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Chronology/5/

    7 Mar 2023: algebraic equations, geometry, Archimedes' theorems, trisection of the angle and other problems which cannot be solved with ruler and compass alone, conic sections, stereometry, stereographic projection, trigonometry, the sine theorem in

  10. Frans van Schooten (1615 - 1660) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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

    14 May 2024: Born. 15 May 1615. Died. 29 May 1660. Leiden, Netherlands. Summary. Frans van Schooten was a Dutch mathematician who was one of the main people to promote the spread of Cartesian geometry. . View three larger pictures. Frans van Schooten's name can