area

segment (see distance formulas), area is the size of a closed region in a plane, and volume is the size of a solid. Formulas for area and volume are based on lengths. For example, the area of a circle equals π times the square of the length of its…

(weight), distance or length, area, and volume (liquid or grain measure). The last three are, of course, closely related.

…gives rules for finding the area of a circle and the volume of a truncated pyramid. Ancient Greek geometers investigated finding tangents to curves, the centre of gravity of plane and solid figures, and the volumes of objects formed by revolving various curves about a fixed axis.

…of problems, the determination of areas and volumes and the calculation of tangents to curves. In classical geometry Archimedes had advanced farthest in this part of mathematics, having used the method of exhaustion to establish rigorously various results on areas and volumes and having derived for some curves (e.g., the…

…in ancient problems—particularly, finding the area or volume of irregular objects and finding their centre of mass. Essentially, integration generalizes the process of summing up many small factors to determine some whole.

The Nine Chapters gives formulas for elementary plane and solid figures, including the areas of triangles, rectangles, trapezoids, circles, and segments of circles and the volumes of prisms, cylinders, pyramids, and spheres. All these formulas are expressed as lists of operations to…

Just as a segment can be measured by comparing it with a unit segment, the area of a polygon or other plane figure can be measured by comparing it with a unit square. The common formulas for calculating areas reduce this…

Eudoxus also proved that the areas of circles are proportional to the squares of their diameters.