Archimedes
Archimedes of Syracuse}}, .}} ( ; BC}}) was an Ancient Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor from the ancient city of Syracuse in Sicily. Although few details of his life are known, he is regarded as one of the leading scientists in classical antiquity. Considered the greatest mathematician of ancient history, and one of the greatest of all time, Archimedes anticipated modern calculus and analysis by applying the concept of the infinitely small and the method of exhaustion to derive and rigorously prove a range of geometrical theorems. These include the area of a circle, the surface area and volume of a sphere, the area of an ellipse, the area under a parabola, the volume of a segment of a paraboloid of revolution, the volume of a segment of a hyperboloid of revolution, and the area of a spiral.Archimedes' other mathematical achievements include deriving an approximation of pi, defining and investigating the Archimedean spiral, and devising a system using exponentiation for expressing very large numbers. He was also one of the first to apply mathematics to physical phenomena, working on statics and hydrostatics. Archimedes' achievements in this area include a proof of the law of the lever, the widespread use of the concept of center of gravity, and the enunciation of the law of buoyancy known as Archimedes' principle. He is also credited with designing innovative machines, such as his screw pump, compound pulleys, and defensive war machines to protect his native Syracuse from invasion.
Archimedes died during the siege of Syracuse, when he was killed by a Roman soldier despite orders that he should not be harmed. Cicero describes visiting Archimedes' tomb, which was surmounted by a sphere and a cylinder that Archimedes requested be placed there to represent his mathematical discoveries.
Unlike his inventions, Archimedes' mathematical writings were little known in antiquity. Mathematicians from Alexandria read and quoted him, but the first comprehensive compilation was not made until AD}} by Isidore of Miletus in Byzantine Constantinople, while commentaries on the works of Archimedes by Eutocius in the 6th century opened them to wider readership for the first time. The relatively few copies of Archimedes' written work that survived through the Middle Ages were an influential source of ideas for scientists during the Renaissance and again in the 17th century, while the discovery in 1906 of previously lost works by Archimedes in the Archimedes Palimpsest has provided new insights into how he obtained mathematical results. Provided by Wikipedia
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The works of Archimedes by Archimedes
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Works. by Archimedes
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The method of Archimedes, recently discovered by Heiberg : a supplement to the Works of Archimedes, 1897 by Archimedes
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The Arenarius of Archimedes : with glossary by Archimedes
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Archimedis Opera ; Apollonii Pergæi Conicorum libri IIII ; Theodosii Sphærica by Archimedes
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"Über spiralen". by Archimedes
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Opera nonnulla by Archimedes
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Archimedes in the Middle Ages by Archimedes
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The method of Archimedes recently discovered by Heiberg ; a supplement to the Works of Archimedes, 1897 by Archimedes
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Archimedes in the Middle Ages by Archimedes
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The works of Archimedes by Archimedes
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Works. by Archimedes
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The works of Archimedes : translated into English, together with Eutocius' commentaries, with commentary, and critical edition of the diagrams by Archimedes
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Geometrical solutions derived from mechanics : a treatise of Archimedes by Archimedes
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Opera omnia, cum commentariis Eutocii by Archimedes
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Les oeuvres complètes d'Archimède : suivies des commentaires d'Eutocius d'Ascalon by Archimedes
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Über paraboloide, hyperboloide und ellipsoide. by Archimedes
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The works of Archimedes : translated into English, together with Eutocius' commentaries, with commentary and critical edition of the diagrams. Vol. 1, The two books 'On the sphere... by Archimedes
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Archimidous tou Syrakousiou Phammites, kaì kuklou métreis eytokiou askalōeitou, eis auten o omnema : Archimedis syracusani Arenarius, et Dimensio circuli : Eutocii Ascalonitæ, i... by Archimedes
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Die quadratur der parabel und Über das gleichgewicht ebener flächen. by Archimedes
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