The Works of Archimedes
Publisher: Dover Publications(2002-04-16) | ISBN:0486420841 | DJVU | 18.5 Mb | 326 pages
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.