Arenarius archimedes biography

Archimedes: books

The Sand Reckoner (Greek: Ψαμμίτης, Psammites) is a work by Archimedes, an Ancient Greek mathematician of the 3rd century BC, in which he set out to determine an upper bound for the number of grains of sand that fit into the universe.
arenarius archimedes biography

Archimedes name

The Arenarius (ὁ Ψαμμίτης) is a short tract addressed to Gelo, the eldest son of Hiero, in which Archimedes proves, that it is possible to assign a number greater than that of the grains of .


Greek letter zero

The Sand Reckoner (Greek: Ψαμμίτης, Psammites) is a work by Archimedes, an Ancient Greek mathematician of the 3rd century BC, in which he set out to determine an upper bound for the .
Story of archimedes
The Arenarius of Archimedes, translated from the Greek, with notes and illustrations.