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Archimedes
ndsbv1_A 9/10/07 2:36 PM Page 85 Archimedes Archimedes ———. “Notes linguistiques et critiques sur le Livre II des Coniques d’Apollonius de Pergè (Première partie).” Revue des Études Grecques 112 (1999): 409–443. ———. “Notes linguistiques et critiques sur le Livre II des Coniques d’Apollonius de Pergè (Deuxième partie).” Revue des Études Grecques 113 (2000): 359–391. ———. “Notes linguistiques et critiques sur le Livre III des Coniques d’Apollonius de Pergè (Première partie).” Revue des Études Grecques 115 (2002): 110–148. Fried, Michael N., and Sabetai Unguru. Apollonius of Perga’s Conica: Text, Context, Subtext. Leiden: Brill, 2001. An overall assessment of the Conics that tries to explain and interpret the text without resorting to modern conceptions and notation. The book offers a remarkable overview of Apollonius’ masterly mathematical insight, pinpoints features of his geometrical approach to conic sections that were completely neglected by previous scholars, and firmly places his work in the Euclidean tradition. Knorr, Wilbur R. “The Hyperbola-Construction in the Conics, Book II: Ancient Variations on a Theorem of Apollonius.” Centaurus 25 (1982): 253–291. The article shows that a theorem in the extant version of the Conics is a later addition. ———. The Ancien
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Archimedes
Abstract
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- Born
- 287 BC
Syracuse, Sicily (now Italy)- Died
- 212 BC
Syracuse, Sicily (now Italy)- Summary
- Archimedes was the greatest mathematician of his age. His contributions in geometry revolutionised the subject and his methods anticipated the integral calculus. He was a practical man who invented a wide variety of machines including pulleys and the Archimidean screw pumping device.
Biography
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 conj