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31. Knorr's papers - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    12 Jul 2023: I propose now to examine Archimedes' study of the centres of gravity of solids. ... On Archimedes' construction of the regular heptagon. Centaurus 32 (4) (1989), 257-271.

32. Physical world - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    18 Jan 2024: As a consequence theoretical results deduced from the axioms will never fit experimental evidence exactly but Archimedes never discussed such points. ... Archimedes certainly had developed an excellent mathematical model but never discusses its

33. Lorenzo Mascheroni (1750 - 1800) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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    14 May 2024: S Maracchia, Cenni sulla geometria del compasso di Mascheroni, Archimede 27 (1) (1975), 52-55.

34. Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (A) -…

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    30 Dec 2023: APPLIED MATHEMATICS. See the entry. PURE and APPLIED MATHEMATICS. The term ARBELOS is apparently due toin his "The Works of Archimedes" [Cambridge: At the University Press, 1897], remarks that:. ... The Lemmas cannot, however, have been written by

35. Chronology for 1625 - 1650 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    7 Mar 2023: Cavalieri presents his development of Archimedes' method of exhaustion in his Geometria indivisibilis continuorum nova.

36. Involute of a Circle - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    7 Mar 2023: The pedal of the involute of a circle, with the centre as pedal point, is a Spiral of Archimedes.

37. Popular biographies 2018 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    30 Dec 2023: Of our nearly 2800 biographies, those below are the 200 which were consulted most often in the last three months. These numbers were compiled in March 2018. The biographies at the top of the list were each accessed up to about 400 times per day,

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

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    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

39. Greek sources I - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    7 Mar 2023: In 1899 an exceptionally important event occurred in our understanding of the works of Archimedes. ... In 1906 Heiberg was able to start examining the Archimedes palimpsest in Istanbul.

40. Leonhard Euler (1707 - 1783) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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    14 May 2024: Of course hydrostatics had been studied since Archimedes, but Euler gave a definitive version.