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ARCHIMEDES OF SYRACUSE: THE CHEST OF IDEAS by Monte R Anderson, 2009-10-29
The Sand Reckoner of Archimedes by Archimedes of Syracuse, 2010-10-01
Naissance à Syracuse: Archimède, Lucie de Syracuse, Mario Feroce, Alessio Di Mauro, Gaetano Zumbo, Giuseppe Di Grande, Giuseppe Gibilisco (French Edition)
People From Syracuse (City), Sicily: Archimedes, Tonino Accolla, Methodios I of Constantinople, Giuseppe Gibilisco, Elio Vittorini
The legend of Archimedes and the burning mirrors of Syracuse (F.R. note) by D. L Simms, 1964
Archimedes and the burning mirrors of Syracuse by D. L Simms, 1977
The Sand Reckoner: Archimedes, Universe, Syracuse, Sicily, Gelo, son of Hiero II, Academic Paper, Large Numbers, Myriad, Long and Short Scales
Archimedes Russell: Upstate Architect (York State Books) by Evamaria Hardin, 1980-09
Ancient Syracusians: Archimedes, Agathocles, Cephalus, Hiero I of Syracuse, Theocritus, Dionysius I of Syracuse, Philistus, Sophron
The Genius of Archimedes -- 23 Centuries of Influence on Mathematics, Science and Engineering: Proceedings of an International Conference held at Syracuse, ... (History of Mechanism and Machine Science)
Archimedes: Archimedes' Screw, the Sand Reckoner, the Method of Mechanical Theorems, Siege of Syracuse, the Quadrature of the Parabola, Salinon

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Archimedes Of Syracuse
archimedes of syracuse. Born 287 BC in Syracuse , Sicily Died 212 BC in Syracuse , Sicily. Archimedes was a native of Syracuse , Sicily .
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Extractions: Died: 212 BC in Syracuse Sicily Archimedes ' father was Phidias, an astronomer. We know nothing else about Phidias other than this one fact and we only know this since Archimedes gives us this information in one of his works, The Sandreckoner. A friend of Archimedes called Heracleides wrote a biography of him but sadly this work is lost. How our knowledge of Archimedes would be transformed if this lost work were ever found, or even extracts found in the writing of others. Archimedes was a native of Syracuse Sicily . It is reported by some authors that he visited Egypt and there invented a device now known as Archimedes' screw . This is a pump, still used in many parts of the world. It is highly likely that, when he was a young man, Archimedes studied with the successors of Euclid in Alexandria . Certainly he was completely familiar with the mathematics developed there, but what makes this conjecture much more certain, he knew personally the mathematicians working there and he sent his results to Alexandria with personal messages. He regarded
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archimedes of syracuse The Father of Buoyancy. People have been aware of objects floating on water (or sinking) since before recorded history.
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Archimedes
from Thales of Miletus and Pythagoras of Samos in the 6th century BC to Pappus of Alexandria in the 4th century AD, archimedes of syracuse (287 212 BC) is
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Extractions: In the very long line of Greek mathematicians from Thales of Miletus and Pythagoras of Samos in the 6th century BC to Pappus of Alexandria in the 4th century AD, Archimedes of Syracuse (287 - 212 BC) is the undisputed leading figure. His pre-eminence is the more remarkable when we consider that this dazzling millenium of mathematics contains so many illustrious names, including Anaxagoras, Zeno, Hippocrates, Theodorus, Eudoxus, Euclid, Eratosthenes, Apollonius, Hipparchus, Heron, Menelaus, Ptolemy and Diophantus. (See the St Andrews archive History of Mathematics for information about these mathematicians.) Although his main claim to fame is as a mathematician, Archimedes is also known for his many discoveries and inventions in physics and engineering, which include the following. His invention of the water-screw, still in use in Egypt, for irrigation, draining marshy land and pumping out water from the bilges of ships. His discovery of the hydrostatic principle that a body immersed in a fluid is subject to an upthrust equal to the weight of fluid displaced by the body. This discovery is said to have inspired his famous cry "Eureka" ("I have found it"). Before discussing the work covered in his book Measurement of the Circle , we mention briefly a few of the other significant contributions which Archimedes made to mathematics.
Archimedes
archimedes of syracuse. Born 287 BC in Syracuse, Sicily Died 212 BC in Syracuse, Sicily. Show birthplace location. Archimedes was a native of Syracuse, Sicily.
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Extractions: Previous (Alphabetically) Next Welcome page Archimedes greatest contributions were in geometry. His methods anticipated the integral calculus 2,000 years before Newton and Leibniz Archimedes was a native of Syracuse, Sicily. Stories from Plutarch, Livy, and others describe machines invented by Archimedes for the defence of Syracuse. These include the catapult, the compound pulley and a burning-mirror. Among Archimedes most famous works is Measurement of the Circle , in which he put the exact value of between the values 3 and 3 . This he obtained by circumscribing and inscribing a circle with regular polygons having 96 sides. Archimedes proved, among many other geometrical results, that the volume of a sphere is two-thirds the volume of a circumscribed cylinder. This he considered his most significant accomplishments, requesting that a representation of a cylinder circumscribing a sphere be inscribed on his tomb. His fascination with geometry is beautifully described by Plutarch.
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Archimedes' Life
wrote in his Bibliotheke, Most remarkable of all, they draw off streams of water by the socalled Egyptian screws, which archimedes of syracuse invented when
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ARCHIMEDES ANCIENT MANUSCRIPT
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Extractions: ANCIENT ARCHIMEDES MANUSCRIPT Thursday October 29 2:35 PM EDT Ancient Manuscript Of Archimedes Sells For $2 Million NEW YORK (Reuters) - An ancient text by the Greek mathematical genius Archimedes sold for $2 million Thursday at Christie's, which won a last-minute court challenge over ownership to proceed with the auction. The rare 10th-century Byzantine Greek palimpsest manuscript is believed to be the oldest and most authentic copy of Archimedes' major works to survive, and contains transcriptions of his writing on geometry and physics. The bidding started at $480,000 on the work, which had a pre-sale estimate of between $800,000 and $1.2 million, and rose rapidly to the price of $2 million and a final sale price of $2,202,500 after Christie's added its commission. The sale went ahead after a court battle Wednesday night in which the Greek Orthodox Church, claiming ownership of the manuscript, failed to stop the auction. A federal judge ruled that Christie's had the right to sell the work on behalf of a French family that has had it for 75 years. The Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem sued Christie's and alleged that the 174 pages of text were stolen. The auction house argued that the current owners were descendants of a Frenchman who legally bought the volume in the 1920s.
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Infinite Secrets homepage. archimedes of syracuse was one of the greatest mathematicians in history. He was also a great inventor and scientist.
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Extractions: Infinite Secrets homepage Archimedes of Syracuse was one of the greatest mathematicians in history. He was also a great inventor and scientist. Most of what we know about Archimedes today comes from his writings and those of his contemporaries. Born in Syracuse, Sicily (then part of Greece), in about 287 B.C., Archimedes traveled to Egypt at the age of 18 to study at the great library of Alexandria. Upon completing his studies, he returned to Syracuse, where he spent the remainder of his life. Archimedes was obsessed with mathematics. He would become so involved in his work that he would forget to eat. He scribbled notes and figures on any available surface. When outside, he used a stick to draw on the ground; when inside, he used his finger to trace figures in the olive oil on his skin. Out of this obsession came many of his greatest theories and proofs, such as the means for approximating square roots, the value of pi (the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter), and the creation of a way to describe very large numbers. He also devised methods for calculating areas and volumes 2,000 years before the invention of calculus. In addition, Archimedes proved that the volume of a sphere is two-thirds the volume of a circumscribed cylinder. He considered this proof his greatest accomplishment and even requested that a representation of a sphere inside a cylinder be inscribed on his tomb. Archimedes was well known for his inventions and scientific discoveries. The most famous of these were the Archimedes' Screw (a device for raising water that is still used in crop irrigation and sewage treatment plants today) and Archimedes' principle of buoyancy. Legend has it that he discovered this principle while in the bath, where he noticed that the more of his body he submerged in the water, the greater the amount of water that over-flowed the bath. Upon making this discovery, he is said to have run naked through the streets of Syracuse, shouting "Eureka!" (Greek for "I have found it!").
Pi History
Around 200 BC, archimedes of syracuse found that pi is somewhere about 3.14 (in fractions; Greeks did not have decimals). Pi (which
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Extractions: History of Pi Pi was known by the Egyptians, who calculated it to be approximately (4/3)^4 which equals 3.1604. The earliest known reference to pi occurs in a Middle Kingdom papyrus scroll, written around 1650 BC by a scribe named Ahmes. He began the scroll with the words: "The Entrance Into the Knowledge of All Existing Things" and remarked in passing that he composed the scroll "in likeness to writings made of old." Towards the end of the scroll, which is composed of various mathematical problems and their solutions, the area of a circle is found using a rough sort of pi. Around 200 BC, Archimedes of Syracuse found that pi is somewhere about 3.14 (in fractions; Greeks did not have decimals). Pi (which is a letter in the Greek alphabet) was discovered by a Greek mathematician named Archimedes. Archimedes wrote a book called The Measurement of a Circle. In the book he states that Pi is a number between 3 10/71 and 3 1/7. He figured this out by taking a polygon with 96 sides and inscribing a circle inside the polygon. That was Archemedes' concept of Pi. New knowledge of Pi then bogged down until the 17th century. Pi was then called the Ludolphian number, after Ludolph van Ceulen, a German mathematician. The first person to use the Greek letter Pi for the number was William Jones, an English mathematician, who coined it in1706.
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Extractions: Arkhimedes syntyi Syrakuusassa Sisilian itärannikolla vuonna 287 eKr. Arkhimedes oli Syrakusan kuninkaan Hieron II:n sukulainen. Arkhimedes on tunnettu sekä matemaatikkona että fyysikkona. Edellä kerrotuista poiketen hänen fysiikan saavutuksensa olivat hyvin käytännönläheisiä. Sentähden häntä voidaan pitää keksijänä ja insinöörinä. Fysiikassa Arkhimedes tunnetaan parhaiten Arkhimedeen laista , joka kertoo, että kappale menettää nesteeseen upotettaessa painostaan syrjäyttämänsä nestemäärän painon verran. Kerrotaan , että hän sai ajatuksen kylvyssä, kun hänen piti selvittää oliko kultaseppä varastanut kultaa ja korvannut sen muulla metallilla kuninkaan kruunussa. Punnitsemalla kruunun ilmassa ja vedessä hän sai painojen erotuksesta laskettua kruunun tilavuuden ja edelleen sen tiheyden. Koska kulta on hyvin painava metalli, oli helppo todeta petos. Toinen tärkeä työ oli vivun tasapainolaki . Tämä on statiikan tärkeimpiä kulmakiviä. Sentähden häntä pidetään statiikan eli tasapaino-opin perustajana. Tasapaino-oppiin liittyi hänen keksimänsä talja.
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archimedes of syracuse Ca. 287 BCE to 212 BCE archimedes of syracuse is generally considered to be the greatest mathematician of ancient times.
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Extractions: Archimedes of Syracuse is generally considered to be the greatest mathematician of ancient times. Archimedes was a native of Syracuse, a Greek colony in Sicily, and after his early education in Alexandria, returned there to spend the rest of his life. He was friends with many prominent mathematicians in Alexandria including Eratosthenes , the great librarian. Unlike many early thinkers, Archimedes was legendary even in his own day. He was extremely rigorous and was only satisfied in publishing the most polished proofs. He did extensive work in pure mathematics and was an extraordinary engineer. Although Archimedes preferred pure mathematics, the Roman siege of Syracuse motivated him to put his efforts towards engineering projects such as the great war engines mentioned by Plutarch. Archimedes reportedly invented huge cranes and levers that were used by him to pick up Roman war ships from the ocean and crush them against the rocks. Archimedes' ingenuity allowed Syracuse to resist the Roman siege for three years. He was killed when the Romans finally invaded the city. At the time, he was reportedly working at his sand table when an angry Roman soldier ran him through. The Roman general Marcellus, aware and in awe of his adversary's mental prowess, was so upset at this event that he had the soldier killed and gave Archimedes an honourable burial.
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disambiguation). archimedes of syracuse (circa 287 BC 212 BC), was a Greek mathematician, astronomer, physicist and engineer.
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Extractions: 5 References Archimedes is one of the greatest mathematicians of all time. He became a popular figure as a result of his involvement in the defense of Syracuse against the Roman siege in the First and Second Punic War s. He is reputed to have held the Roman s at bay with war engine s of his design ; to have been able to move a full-size ship complete with crew and cargo by pulling a single rope; to have discovered the principles of density and buoyancy while taking a bath (thereupon taking to the streets naked calling "eureka" - "I found it!"); and to have invented the irrigation device known as Archimedes' screw In creativity and insight, he exceeds any other mathematician prior to the European renaissance . In a civilization with an awkward numeral system and a language in which "a myriad" (literally ten thousand) meant "infinity", he invented a positional
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archimedes of syracuse. Archimedes was killed in Syracuse when the Romans captured it in 212 BC The commander, Marcellus, gave orders not to harm Archimedes.
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Extractions: The following list are biographies that have been submitted by students participating in the Mathematics project. The mathematicians are ones who have studied , have used in their work or were chosen by students for personal reasons. If you wish to add to this list submit your biography on the History page. Muhammed was born in 780 A.D. and died in 850 A.D. He was an Arabic mathematician who introduced the Hindu decimal system and the use of zero into Arabic mathematics. He also extended the work of Diophantis on algebraic equations in a book, the title which included the word al-jabr (transposition) from which the modern word algebra is derived. I chose this mathematician because he sounded interesting, and important to the world of mathematics. Jennifer, 1996 Although no one knows for sure, people speculate that Archimedes was born sometime around 287 B.C. As a boy he probably attended school in Alexandria, which was the center of Greek learning. After school Archimedes went to live in Syracuse, Sicily, which was then a Greek colony. Here he did much work for the king, Hiero. Archimedes made many discoveries in Math and Physics. One of his mathematical advances was with pi. Archimedes found a way to determine a more exact value of pi. He showed the value of pi was somewhere between 3 1/7 and 3 10/71. This discovery made it possible to solve many problems relating to the area of a circle and the volume of cylinders. Another invention was that of a new type of numeration system. Archimedes' new system worked much better with large numbers than the Roman and Greek systems.
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Extractions: Porphyry EARLY HELLENIST PHILOSOPHERS Diogenes, who was a contemporary of Plato and Aristotle, laid out an important part of the Hellenistic world-view with his Cynicism. Please note: the Cynicism of the originator of this philosophy, Diogenes, had little in common with what we today understand as cynicism. Even before Philip and Alexander had arrived on the Greek scenethe constant warring among the Greeks, the hunger of Athens for power and dominion over its neighbors, the general sense that things were not right politically in Greecehad caused Diogenes to begin to look to inner or personal integrity as a substitute for lost public integrity (which had once been the focus of the moral life in Greece).
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