The Great Archimedes /

In translation for the first time, this highly acclaimed, wonderfully illustrated telling of Archimedes' life and mind is sure to be cherished by experts and novices alike. --Book Jacket.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Geymonat, Mario
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Italiano
Publicado: Waco, Tex. : Baylor University Press, 2010.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Archimedes.
Scientists > Greece > Biography.
Scientists.
Greece.
Biographies.
collective biographies.
Biography.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a The adventurous life of a remarkable scientist -- The mysterious Greek letter [pi] -- "Give me a lever long enough and I will move the world" -- Eureka! -- Archimedes' Magnum Opus: on the sphere and the cylinder -- How many grains of sand does it take to fill the universe? -- Archimedes as civil and military engineer -- An original and persuasive method -- Archimedes and the poets Catullus, Horace, and Virgil -- The "myth" of Archimedes, yesterday and today. 
520 |a In translation for the first time, this highly acclaimed, wonderfully illustrated telling of Archimedes' life and mind is sure to be cherished by experts and novices alike. --Book Jacket. 
520 |a Archimedes (ca 287 BCE -- ca 212 BCE) was a mathematician, physicist, scientist, and engineer. Born in Syracuse, Sicily, he was an inventor par excellence. He not only explored the displacement of water and sand, worked out the principle of levers, developed an approximation of pi, discovered ways to determine the areas and volumes of solids, and created the monumental Archimedes' screw (a machine for raising water), Archimedes also developed machinery that his fellow Syracusans successfully employed to defend their city against the Romans. 
520 |a In this exclusive English edition of the elucidating and award-winning investigation of the life of the Greek Archimedes, Mario Geymonat provides fresh insights into one of the greatest minds in the history of humankind. 
520 |a "A major contribution. Geymonat ensures that Archimedes will continue to be an example of mathematical genius for generations to come."--The Foreword by Zhores I. Alferov, Winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize for Physics. 
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