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Works of Archimedes [[electronic resource]]



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Autore: Archimedes Visualizza persona
Titolo: Works of Archimedes [[electronic resource]] Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Dover Publications, 2013
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (881 p.)
Disciplina: 510
Soggetto topico: Geometry -- Early works to 1800
Mathematics, Greek
Mechanics -- Early works to 1800
Geometry
Mechanics
Mathematics
Physical Sciences & Mathematics
Mathematics - General
Altri autori: HeathSir Thomas  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di contenuto: ""Cover""; ""Title page""; ""Copyright page""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Chapter I. archimedes""; ""Chapter II. manuscripts and principal editions�order of composition�dialect�lost works""; ""Chapter III. relation of archimedes to his predecessors""; "" 1. Use of traditional geometrical methods""; "" 2. Earlier discoveries affecting quadrature and cubature""; "" 3. Conic Sections""; "" 4. Surfaces of the second degree""; "" 5. Two mean proportionals in continued proportion""; ""Chapter IV. arithmetic in archimedes""; "" 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.""; ""Supplement�the method of archimedes follows""
Sommario/riassunto: 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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ISBN: 0-486-15439-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 996320172703316
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Serie: Dover Books on Mathematics