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Archimedes in n dimensions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

Patrick du Val  and
Giacomo Saban
Patrick du Val
Affiliation:
University of Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Giacomo Saban
Affiliation:
University of Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
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Extract

“And though he made many elegant discoveries, he is said to have besought his friends and kinsmen to place on his grave after his death a cylinder enclosing a sphere, with an inscription giving the proportion by which the including solid exceeds the included.” Plutarch, on Archimedes, in The lives of famous men, the Life of Marcellus.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 58 , Issue 405 , October 1974 , pp. 202 - 205
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1974

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References

1. Somerville, D. M. Y., An introduction to the geometry of n dimensions, p. 136. Dover (New York, 1958).Google Scholar