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(1) Archimedes and balances

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 September 2016

Ruth K. Tobias
Ruth K. Tobias*
Affiliation:
Department of Educational Studies, University of Hull, Hull HU5 2EH
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Extract

If asked to give the origins of the calculus, most pupils who know anything about the subject would answer that Newton and Leibniz invented the calculus in the seventeenth century. It is interesting then to be able to demonstrate the method by which Archimedes found the volume of various solid objects in the third century B.C.

Type
Volume: some historical perspectives
Information
The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 65 , Issue 434 , December 1981 , pp. 261 - 264
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1981

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