Augustin-Louis Cauchy

Augustin-Louis Cauchy : biography df=y September 8 - 23 May 1857 The year 1848 was the year of revolution all over Europe; revolutions broke out...

Augustin-Louis Cauchy

Augustin-Louis Cauchy : biography df=y September 8 - 23 May 1857 In September 1812, now 23 years old, after becoming ill from overwork, Cauchy returned...

Augustin-Louis Cauchy

Augustin-Louis Cauchy : biography df=y September 8 - 23 May 1857 In August 1833 Cauchy left Turin for Prague, to become the science tutor of...

Archimedes

Archimedes : biography circa 287 BC - circa 212 BC Other discoveries and inventions While Archimedes did not invent the lever, he gave an explanation...

Archimedes

Archimedes : biography circa 287 BC - circa 212 BC Archimedes of Syracuse (  BC –  BC) was a Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor,...

Archimedes

Archimedes : biography circa 287 BC - circa 212 BC Claw of Archimedes The Claw of Archimedes is a weapon that he is said to...

Archimedes

Archimedes : biography circa 287 BC - circa 212 BC Biography Archimedes was born c. 287 BC in the seaport city of Syracuse, Sicily, at...

Archimedes

Archimedes : biography circa 287 BC - circa 212 BC Discoveries and inventions Archimedes' principle The most widely known anecdote about Archimedes tells of...

Archimedes

Archimedes : biography circa 287 BC - circa 212 BC The Sand Reckoner In this treatise, Archimedes counts the number of grains of...

Archimedes

Archimedes : biography circa 287 BC - circa 212 BC On Spirals This work of 28 propositions is also addressed to Dositheus. The...