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71.) a mathematician?s lament
Over one day ago | Tue Jul 8 3:02:00 PDT 2008
to help your students memorize formulas for the area and circumference of a circle, for example, you might invent this whole story about ?mr. c,? who drives around ?mrs. a? and tells her how nice his ?two pies are? (c=2?r) and how her ...
From rhymko
72.) Patently Silly :: Penile Volumetric Measuring Device
Over one day ago | Fri Dec 15 15:46:00 PST 2006
In the short 22 centuries since Archimedes first shouted Eureka from his bathtub, inventor Jason Turner has applied the same techniques of fluid displacement to accurately measure the one-eyed trouser snake. ...
From Daniel Wright
73.) invention, inventing, inventiveness, inventors, invent
Over one day ago | Mon Apr 28 2:28:00 PDT 2008
archimedes, leonardo da vinci, galileo, newton, edison, einstein . . . but to everyone who invents something however minor or even minute, if it works the way you want it to, then you're an inventor and you've already done something ...
From Bruce Bilney
74.) book review: the history of the calculus and its conceptual ...
Over one day ago | Fri Jul 4 10:02:00 PDT 2008
the founders of the calculus, and even some who came after, did not invent calculus in a vacuum. although newton and leibniz may have bundled the existing algorithms into a nice package and thus deserve to be called the inventors of the ...
From Adrian C. Keister
75.) IMAO » Blog Archive » Science!
Over one day ago | Fri Oct 31 0:00:00 PDT 2008
People have been able to float for some time (I believe since the time Archimedes, who invented floating). But I agree steam power is quite useful for getting up the river. T.N. Amaps says: October 31st, 2008 at 3:52 pm ...
From Frank J.
76.) archimedes to hawking
Over one day ago | Thu Apr 3 14:29:00 PDT 2008
do we discover or invent laws? what is reality really? when will the last law be discovered? some recent reviews:. "a ride through the history of world-changing scientific ideas. pickover pays homage to the great minds who have laid ...
From Cliff Pickover
77.) artdiamondblog.com: Antikythera Mechanism Linked to Archimedes
Over one day ago | Wed Oct 22 0:00:00 PDT 2008
Archimedes, who lived in Syracuse and died in 212 B.C., invented a planetarium calculating motions of the Moon and the known planets and wrote a lost manuscript on astronomical mechanisms. . . . . . . Only now, applying high-resolution ...
From Art Diamond
78.) archimedes biography
Over one day ago | Fri Feb 28 16:00:00 PST 2003
His greatest contributions to mathematics were in the area of Geometry. Archimedes was also an accomplished engineer and an inventor. He was believed to have been obsessed with Geometry though. Archimedes was born in Syracuse, ...
From unknown
79.) History of Famous Inventors - A - Past and Present
Over one day ago | Sat Dec 8 0:00:00 PST 2007
Randice-Lisa Altschul invented the world's first disposable cell phone. The history of cell phones. ... The history of Archimedes, a mathematician from ancient Greece. He invented the Archimedes screw (a device for raising water). ...
From unknown
80.) Interview With an Inventor | The New York Observer
Over one day ago | Tue Apr 29 0:00:00 PDT 2008
I spoke to Archimedes J. Selby, inventor of the six-sided television. I visited him in his loft in Dumbo. Sparrow: So this is your six-sided television. Selby: One of them, yes. Sparrow: It?sa cube. When I heard ?six-sided television,? ...
From Sparrow
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