The conference focused on the enduring and continuing influence of Archimedes in our modern world, celebrating his centuries of influence on mathematics, science, and engineering. This book is a collection of papers presented at theĪRCHIMEDES IN THE 21ST CENTURY World Conference, held at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences in 2013. I created this site in 1995, and it has been under continual development and expansion since then.Ī RCHIMEDES IN THE 21 ST C ENTURY Proceedings of aĪt the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences Here I have compiled knowledge about Archimedes’ inventions, the numerous fields of science and mathematics he created, discussions of many of his finished works-and my own research that extends and applies Archimedean principles to 21 st century problems. T his site is a virtual book about Archimedes, who is widely regarded as the greatest mathematician and scientist in antiquity.
It actually is a bust of Archidamos III, aĪbout this site. Generally regarded as the greatest mathematician and scientist of antiquity and one of the three greatest mathematicians of all time (together with Isaac Newton (English 1643-1727) and Carl Friedrich Gauss (German 1777-1855)).Ī statue in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples (Naples, Italy) widely claimed to represent Archimedes. On plane equilibriums, Quadrature of the parabola, On the sphere and cylinder, On spirals, On conoids and spheroids, On floating bodies, Measurement of a circle, The Sandreckoner, On the method of mechanical problems. He is called the “father of integral calculus” and also the “father of mathematical physics”. Hydrostatics, static mechanics, pycnometry (the measurement of the volume or density of an object). Many war machines used in the defense of Syracuse, compound pulley systems, planetarium, water screw (possibly), water organ (possibly), burning mirrors (very unlikely). It is not known whether he was married or had any children. His father was an astronomer named Phidias and he was probably related to Hieron II, the king of Syracuse. Probably studied in Alexandria, Egypt, under the followers of Euclid. He was killed by a Roman soldier who did not know who he was. At the time Syracuse was an independent Greek city-state with a 500-year history.Ģ12 or 211 BC in Syracuse when it was being sacked by a Roman army.
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