The Works of Archimedes

T.L. Heath

376 pages, parution le 26/07/2002

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Résumé

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 contemporaries. Modern mathematicians, physicists, science historians, and logicians will find this volume a source of timeless fascination. Unabridged reprint of the classic 1897 edition, with supplement of 1912.

Contents

Archimedes
Manuscripts and principal editions
Relation of Archimedes to his predecessors
Arithmetic in Archimedes
On the problems known as NEYΣEIΣ
Cubic equation
Anticipations by Archimedes of the integral calculus
The terminology of Archimedes
The works of Archimedes
On the sphere and cylinder, book I, book II
Measurement op a circle
On conoids and spheroids
On spirals
On the equilibrium of planes, book I, book II
The sand-reckoner
Quadrature of the parabola
On floating bodies, book I, book II
Book of lemmas
The cattle-problem
Supplement - the method of Archimedes

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Dover
Auteur(s)	T.L. Heath
Parution	26/07/2002
Nb. de pages	376
Format	13,5 x 21,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	575g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780486420844
ISBN13	978-0-486-42084-4