Mighty Archimedes
About 287 BC to 212 BC in Syracuse, Italy
Lesson Plans and Math Activities for This Topic
Biographical info http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Archimedes.html
Glimpses of Genius Article http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20040515/bob9.asp
Archimedes Links http://www.mcs.drexel.edu/~crorres/Archimedes/contents.html
Biography written for approximately upper elementary included in AIMS preview of Historical Connections in Mathematics: http://wwws.aimsedu.org/previews/bkprev/HistConn1.html Note that Pythagoras is at the beginning of the file, scroll down to the Archimedes section
Activities and problem solving from Historical Connections in Mathematics (click on the preview from AIMS site) - Note the Pythagoras materials are at the beginning of the file, scroll down to the Archimedes section
Pi Pages Archimedes' Method of Exhaustion http://personal.bgsu.edu/~carother/pi/Pi3a.html
Buffon's Needle (Pi & Probability) http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/reese/buffon/buffon.html Archimedes and Large Numbers
The Works of Archimedes online (pdf) http://www.brainfly.net/html/archimed.htm Archimedes Science Activities
Archimedes Screw/Hydrostatics www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0016326.html Other Classical References to Mathematics
Aristophanes The Birds http://classics.mit.edu/Aristophanes/birds.html