Completing Book II of Archimedes’s On Floating Bodies

Completing Book II of Archimedes’s On Floating Bodies

Of the surviving works of Archimedes, Rorres believes the second of his two books of On Floating Bodies is his most mature work. Rorres discusses the results of research in which he completed Archimedes's investigation to include also the more complex cases when the base of the floating parabol...

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Veröffentlicht in:The Mathematical intelligencer 2004-09, Vol.26 (3), p.32-42
1. Verfasser: Rorres, Chris
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
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Archimedes (287?-12 BC)
Geometry
Mathematicians
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Zusammenfassung:Of the surviving works of Archimedes, Rorres believes the second of his two books of On Floating Bodies is his most mature work. Rorres discusses the results of research in which he completed Archimedes's investigation to include also the more complex cases when the base of the floating paraboloid is partially submerged.
ISSN:0343-6993
1866-7414
DOI:10.1007/BF02986750