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Although Archimedes’ fame among the general populace in antiquity was based on his military machines, inventions, and legends, he earned his true immortality through his mathematical works. Here I discuss some of Archimedes’ mathematical ideas that are being used and applied twenty-three centuries after his lifetime.
“Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not.”
— G. H. Hardy [1]
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Rorres, C. (2017). Archimedes the Mathematician. In: Rorres, C. (eds) Archimedes in the 21st Century. Trends in the History of Science. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58059-3_4
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