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How does an Archimedes screw work?
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How does an Archimedes screw work?
An animation of the Archimedes screw.
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Archimedes
Archimedes, oil on canvas by Giuseppe Nogari, 18th century; in the Pushkin Fine Arts...
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sphere with circumscribing cylinder
The volume of a sphere is 4πr3/3, and the volume of the circumscribing...
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Fields Medal
The Fields Medal, obverse (left) and reverse. This gold medal, designed by the Canadian...
By permission of the University of Toronto
mathematicians of the Greco-Roman world
This map spans a millennium of prominent Greco-Roman mathematicians, from Thales...
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Archimedes' method of angle trisection.
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Archimedes' parabolic segment calculation
Employing Eudoxus's method of exhaustion, Archimedes first showed how to calculate...
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spiral of Archimedes
Archimedes only used geometry to study the curve that bears his name. In modern notation...
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