The Works of Archimedes Mathematicians welcomed it as a

Mathematicians welcomed it as a lucid overview of the development of mathematics down through the centuries

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The Works of Archimedes Mathematicians welcomed it as aThe complete works of antiquity's great geometer appear here in a highly accessible English translation by a distinguished scholar. Remarkable for his range of thought and his mastery of treatment, Archimedes addressed such topics as 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. This edition offers