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Archimedes

Further Reading


E.J. Dijksterhuis, Archimedes, (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1987) (origin. publ. 1956)

R. Netz & W. Noel, The Archimedes Codex, (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2007)

Howard Eves, An Introduction to the History of Mathematics, (Fifth Edition, Saunders,1983)

George M Phillips, Mathematics Is Not a Spectator Sport, (Springer-Verlag, New York, 2005)

George M Phillips, Two Millennia of Mathematics: From Archimedes to Gauss, (Springer-Verlag, New York, 2000)

T. L. Heath, The Works of Archimedes, (Cambridge University Press, 1897) (Reprinted by Dover)


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The MacTutor History of Mathematics archive - Archimedes

Archimedean miscellanea

Archimedes Palimpsest


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