The Garden of Archimedes  A Museum for Mathematics

Squaring Methods from antiquity to the 17th century

• Theory of proportions and method of exhaustion
  • The squaring of the parabola by Archimedes
  • Cavalieri's indivisibles
  • Torricelli's infinite hyperboloid
  
  
  
  

  History of calculus

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