Arithmos VI - Archimedes

From: Saturday, July 27, 2002, 2:00 pm
To: Sunday, July 28, 2002, 12:00 noon.
Location: Western Connceticut State University
Danbury, CT
Contact: Ed Sandifer, esandifer@earthlink.net
Reading List:
1. From Sphere and Cylinder I: Greetings and Assumptions. C 133-134, H 1-4, D 141-149.
2. Measurement of the Circle: Propositions 1-3. C 137-141, H 91-98 + lots in the introduction, D 222-240.
3. Quadrature of the Parabola: Introduction and Propositions 17-24. C 141-145, H 233-235 and 246-252, D 336-345.
4. Fourth and most importantly: H 13-51 in the second pagination, D 313-336.
Sources for these reading:

C
Ronald Calinger, Classics of Mathematics, Prentice-Hall, second-edition, 1995.
H
T. L. Heath, The Works of Archimedes, Dover, n.d. The First edition was 1897 and this was supplemented in 1912 with The Method of Archimedes.
D
E. J. Dijksterhuis, Archimedes translated by C. Dikshoorn with a new bibliographic essay by Wilbur R. Knorr, 1987. The first edition was 1956.

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