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Archimedes was a mathematician and inventor, born in Syracuse, Sicily, about 287 B.C. He became famous for his law of the lever and for inventing the catapult, parabolic mirror, and the mechanical crane that was capable of capsizing a ship by overturning it. These inventions were designed to defend mostrar mais Syracuse during the Second Punic War, which were waged between Rome and Carthage. While Archimedes made fundamental contributions to physics, his greatest contributions were to theoretical mathematics. Some of his works have come down to us. When Syracuse was taken in 212 B.C., Archimedes was killed by the Roman soldiers, being at the time intent upon a mathematical problem. mostrar menos

Obras por Archimedes

Britannica Great Books: Euclid, Archimedes, Apollonius, Nicomachus (1952) — Contribuidor — 365 exemplares
The Works of Archimedes (Dover Books on Mathematics) (2002) — Autor — 204 exemplares
Britannica Great Books: Euclid, Archimedes, Nicomachus (1991) — Contribuidor — 30 exemplares
The Works of Archimedes with The Method of Archimedes (1952) — Autor — 20 exemplares
The Sand Reckoner of Archimedes (2008) 13 exemplares
On the Sphere and Cylinder (2010) 9 exemplares
Archimedes in the Middle Ages (1978) 3 exemplares
Floating Bodies 2 exemplares
Opere di Archimede (1974) 2 exemplares
El Método 1 exemplar
Opere 1 exemplar
On Spirals 1 exemplar
Book of Lemmas 1 exemplar
Various 1 exemplar
The Life of Pi 1 exemplar
©ber Spiralen (2009) 1 exemplar

Associated Works

The World of Mathematics, Volume 1 (1956) — Contribuidor — 125 exemplares

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Data de nascimento
287 BC (ca)
Data de falecimento
212 BC (ca)
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
Greece

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Obras
60
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818
Popularidade
#31,176
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Críticas
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ISBN
61
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