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41. Equiangular Spiral - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: contrasting it with the Spiral of Archimedes which is formed by coiling a cylinder as a sailor coils a rope upon the deck.

42. Images of Mathematicians by issuing country - MacTutor History of…

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

    1 May 2024: The painting 'Archimedes' is by Domenico Fetti arch1.

43. Dijksterhuis books - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    12 Jul 2023: 2. Archimedes (1938), by E J Dijksterhuis. 2.1. Review by: Louis Charles Karpinski. ... The bulk of the work is a discussion of all the writings of Archimedes, proposition by proposition.

44. Thabit (836 - 901) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    30 Dec 2023: An important consideration here is whether Thabit was familiar with the methods of Archimedes. ... Of course Archimedes considered a theory of centres of gravity, but in [14] the author argues that Thabit's work is not based on Archimedes' theory.

45. Calculus history - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    18 Jan 2024: However Archimedes, around 225 BC, made one of the most significant of the Greek contributions. ... Archimedes used the method of exhaustion to find an approximation to the area of a circle.

46. Hyperbolic Spiral - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    7 Mar 2023: His chief contributions were to mechanics. Taking the pole as the centre of inversion, the hyperbolic spiral r = a/θ inverts to the spiral of Archimedes r = aθ.

47. Personally designed stamps - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

    30 Nov 2023: These stamps were not officially issued by the country's postal services, but could be used to send letters. The Moldovan stamps were designed by Arthur Palyan and most of the others were designed by Dieter Egelriede. Click on a thumbnail to see the

48. Aristarchus (310 BC - 230 BC) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

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    30 Dec 2023: Archimedes having reported the views of Aristarchus, criticised those views as giving mathematically meaningless proportions. ... Serbe Sci. Publ. Inst. Math. 9 (1956), 79-92. O Neugebauer, Archimedes and Aristarchus, Isis 34 (1942), 4-6.

49. Knorr's books - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    7 Mar 2023: Part III, which occupies more than half of the book, is devoted to "the textual tradition of Archimedes' Dimension of the circle". ... the circle comparable in format and scope to Archimedes' writings on the sphere".

50. Greek numbers - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    7 Mar 2023: Archimedes (although in fact historically Archimedes made his proposal nearly 50 years before Apollonius). ... 1016. Using this system Archimedes calculated that the number of grains of sand which could be fitted into the universe was of the order of the