Archimedes, "The Works of Archimedes"ISBN: 0486420841 | 2002 | EPUB | 326 pages | 27 MB
Complete works of ancient geometer in highly accessible translation by distinguished scholar. Topics include the famous problems of the ratio of the areas of a cylinder and an inscribed sphere; the measurement of a circle; the properties of conoids, spheroids, and spirals; and the quadrature of the parabola. Informative introduction and 52-page supplement.