UID:
almafu_9958136971602883
Format:
1 online resource (881 p.)
ISBN:
9780486154398
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0486154394
Series Statement:
Dover Books on Mathematics
Content:
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
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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""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""
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""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""
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780486420844
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0486420841
Language:
English
