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CHRIS RORRES Professor Emeritus of Mathematics Drexel University Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Email: crorres@cs.drexel.edu |
ARCHIMEDES
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This site is a collection of Archimedean miscellanea that I have collected over the years. The topics, under continual development, include:
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ARCHIMEDES IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Proceedings of a
World Conference
at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Edited by Chris Rorres
ISBN 978-3-319-58058-6 (hardcover)
A product of Birkhäuser Basel |
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. The conference focused on the enduring and continuing influence of Archimedes in our modern world, celebrating his centuries of influence on mathematics, science, and engineering. Only a modest background in math is required to read this book,
making it accessible to curious readers of all ages.
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A one-hour talk given in 2009 at the Beckman Center in Irving, California, as part of the Distinctive Voices program of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States. I discuss Archimedes' formative role in our quest for a Theory of Everything and where that quest remains today.
• View the talk on YouTube.
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R E P R I N T
[PDF version (1.4 megabytes)]
American Journal of Physics ARCHIMEDES’ FLOATING BODIES ON A SPHERICAL EARTH
by Chris Rorres
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R E P R I N T
[PDF version (664 kilobytes)]
The Mathematical Intelligencer
COMPLETING
BOOK
II OF
ARCHIMEDES’S
by Chris Rorres
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Remark: The animated figure illustrates the seven equilibrium positions (both stable and unstable) of a floating paraboloid whose height is 0.88 times its diameter and whose relative density is 0.51.
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R E P R I N T
[PDF version (2.3 megabytes)]
ASCE Journal of Hydraulic Engineering
THE
TURN OF THE
SCREW:
by Chris Rorres
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R E P R I N T
[WWW version
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PDF version (586 kilobytes)]
SIAM Review
FINDING THE
CENTER OF A
by Chris Rorres and David Gilman Romano
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(Photo from the cover of Athletics and Mathematics in Archaic Corinth: The Origins of the Greek Stadion, by David Gilman Romano. Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, Volume 206, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, 1993.)
ELEMENTARY LINEAR ALGEBRA
by Howard Anton and Chris Rorres
xii+713 pages+Appendices |
A P P L I C A T I O N S V E R S I O N
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Panayiotitsa Rorres |
You can download a QuickTime movie of a morph constructed from five photographs of a woman taken over a 77-year period, from age 22 to age 99.
40 seconds 240 x 320 pixels
This morph, together with the theory of morphing, appears in the above textbook (Elementary Linear Algebra, Applications Version by Anton & Rorres). |
Panayiotitsa Rorres |