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" Archimedes : "
Sherman Stein
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BL
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| Record Number
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588506
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b417725
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| Main Entry
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Stein, Sherman K
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| Title & Author
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Archimedes : : what did he do besides cry eureka? /\ Sherman Stein
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| Publication Statement
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Washington, DC :: Mathematical Association of America,, c1999
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| Series Statement
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Classroom resource materials
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x, 155 p. :: ill. ;; 23 cm
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| ISBN
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0883857189
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-152) and index
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| Contents
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The life of Archimedes? -- The law of the lever -- Center of gravity -- Big literary find in Constantinople -- The mechanical method -- Two sums -- The parabola -- Floating bodies -- The spiral -- The sphere -- Archimedes traps [pi] -- Appendix A, Affine mappings and the parabola, Appendix B, The floating paraboloid: special case -- Appendix C, Notation -- Appendix D, References
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Archimedes
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Mathematics, Greek
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| Dewey Classification
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510
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| LC Classification
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QA22.S85 1999
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QA22.S85 1999
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