Archimedes in the 21st Century Proceedings of a World Conference at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Rorres, Chris (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2017.
• Series: Trends in the History of Science,
• Subjects: Mathematics.; History.; History of Mathematical Sciences.; Mathematical and Computational Engineering.

This book is a collection of papers presented at the “Archimedes in the 21st Century” world conference, held at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences in 2013. This conference focused on the enduring and continuing influence of Archimedes in our modern world, celebrating his centuries of inf...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Archimedes the Pragmatic Engineer
• Archimedes the Military Engineer
• Archimedes the Geometer
• Archimedes the Mathematician
• Archimedes and Ship Design.- Archimedes Screw in the 21st Century
• Archimedes, Astronomy, and the Planetarium
• Archimedes in the 21st Century Imagination.