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Works of Archimedes
The complete works of antiquity's great geometer appear here in a highly accessible English translation by a distinguished scholar. Remarkable for his range of thought and his mastery of treatment, Archimedes addressed such topics as the famous problems of the ratio of the areas of a cylinder and an inscribed sphere; the measurement of a circle; the properties of conoids, spheroids, and spirals; and the quadrature of the parabola. This edition offers an informative introduction with many valuable insights into the ancient mathematician's life and thought as well as the views of his contemporar
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monografia Rebiun36492506 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun36492506 m d cr -n--------- 151005s2013||||||| s|||||||||||eng|d 0-486-15439-4 UPVA 998914274203706 CBUC 991013362479806708 AU-PeEL eng AU-PeEL AU-PeEL eng 510 Arquímedes Works of Archimedes electronic resource].] Dover Publications 2013 Dover Publications 1 online resource (881 p.) 1 online resource (881 p.) Text txt computer c online resource cr Dover Books on Mathematics Description based upon print version of record ""Cover""; ""Title page""; ""Copyright page""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter I. archimedes""; ""Chapter II. manuscripts and principal editionsâ?order of compositionâ?dialectâ?lost works""; ""Chapter III. relation of archimedes to his predecessors""; ""Â 1. Use of traditional geometrical methods""; ""Â 2. Earlier discoveries affecting quadrature and cubature""; ""Â 3. Conic Sections""; ""Â 4. Surfaces of the second degree""; ""Â 5. Two mean proportionals in continued proportion""; ""Chapter IV. arithmetic in archimedes""; ""Â 1. Greek numeral system"" ""On the equilibrium of planes, book II.""""The sand-reckoner""; ""Quadrature of the parabola""; ""On floating bodies, book I""; ""On floating bodies, book II""; ""Book of lemmas""; ""The cattle-problem.""; ""Supplementâ?the method of archimedes follows"" The complete works of antiquity's great geometer appear here in a highly accessible English translation by a distinguished scholar. Remarkable for his range of thought and his mastery of treatment, Archimedes addressed such topics as the famous problems of the ratio of the areas of a cylinder and an inscribed sphere; the measurement of a circle; the properties of conoids, spheroids, and spirals; and the quadrature of the parabola. This edition offers an informative introduction with many valuable insights into the ancient mathematician's life and thought as well as the views of his contemporar English Geometry -- Early works to 1800 Mathematics, Greek Mechanics -- Early works to 1800 Mathematics, Greek- Early works to 1800 Geometry- Early works to 1800 Mechanics Mathematics Physical Sciences & Mathematics Mathematics - General Heath, Sir Thomas 0-486-42084-1 Dover Books on Mathematics