Overview
- Written for a general audience and richly illustrated throughout
- Explores the enduring and continuing influence of Archimedes in the 21st century
- Chapters written by mathematicians, scientists, and engineers with a focus on modern applications
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Trends in the History of Science (TRENDSHISTORYSCIENCE)
Access this book
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
Table of contents (8 papers)
-
Front Matter
-
Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
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 influence on mathematics, science, and engineering.
Archimedes planted the seeds for a myriad of seminal ideas that would grow over the ages. Each chapter surveys the growth of one or more of these seeds, and the fruit that they continue to bear to this day. The conference speakers contributing to this book are actively involved in STEM fields whose origins trace back to Archimedes, many of whom have conducted and published research that extends Archimedes’ work into the 21st century. The speakers are not historians, so while historical context is provided, this book is uniquely focused on the works themselves as opposed to their history.
Thebreadth and depth of Archimedes’ influence will inspire, delight, and even surprise readers from a variety of fields and interests including historians, mathematicians, scientists, and engineers. Only a modest background in math is required to read this book, making it accessible to curious readers of all ages.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Archimedes in the 21st Century
Book Subtitle: Proceedings of a World Conference at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Editors: Chris Rorres
Series Title: Trends in the History of Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58059-3
Publisher: Birkhäuser Cham
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-58058-6Published: 11 September 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86312-2Published: 18 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-58059-3Published: 26 August 2017
Series ISSN: 2297-2951
Series E-ISSN: 2297-296X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 160
Number of Illustrations: 24 b/w illustrations, 103 illustrations in colour
Topics: History of Mathematical Sciences, Mathematical and Computational Engineering