| Description |
x, 155 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Classroom resource materials
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-152) and index. |
| Contents |
The life of Archimedes? -- The law of the lever -- Center of gravity -- Big literary find in Constantinople -- The mechanical method -- Two sums -- The parabola -- Floating bodies -- The spiral -- The sphere -- Archimedes traps [pi] -- Appendix A, Affine mappings and the parabola -- Appendix B, The floating paraboloid : special case -- Appendix C, Notation -- Appendix D, References. |
| Subject |
Archimedes.
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Mathematics, Greek.
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| ISBN |
0883857189 |
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