Mighty Archimedes
Archimedes was born about 287 BC to 212 BC in Syracuse, Italy
Notable Quotes:
"Eureka, Eureka. I have found [it].."
"Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth." On the lever in Pappus Synagoge
"Do not disturb my circles!" Last words. Sometimes reported as: "Soldier, stand away from my diagram."
Biographical Info
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
Nova & Archimedes http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/archimedes/pi.html
The Value of Pi http://mathforum.org/isaac/problems/pi1.html
The Pi Pages http://www.cecm.sfu.ca/pi/pi.html
Artistic Pi http://www.cecm.sfu.ca/pi/pideyves.gif
Buffon's Needle (Pi & Probability) http://www.mste.uiuc.edu/reese/buffon/buffon.html
Archimedes and Large Numbers
Archimedes & Large Numbers
http://mooni.fccj.org/~ethall/archmede/archmede.htm
Sand and Corn Counting
http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/ArchimedesSand.htm
The Works of Archimedes online (pdf) http://www.brainfly.net/html/archimed.htm
Archimedes Science Activities
Archimedes Principle Density / Buoyancy
www.math.wichita.edu/history/activities/science-act.html#arc-pr
Foilboat Density Activity
http://www.usoe.k12.ut.us/curr/science/sciber00/8th/forces/sciber/foilboat.htm
Levers
http://www.scienceyear.com/under11s/index.html?page=/under11s/levers/
www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0016326.html
Other Classical References to Mathematics
Plato's Meno http://plato.thefreelibrary.com/Meno/2-1-2
Aristophanes The Birds http://classics.mit.edu/Aristophanes/birds.html
Advanced Classical Reading: Math in Meno and The Birds
