The complete works of antiquity's great geometer appear here in a highly accessible English translation by a distinguished scholar. <br>Remarkable for his range of thought and his mastery of treatment, Archimedes addressed such topics as the famous problems of the ratio of the areas of a cylinder and an inscribed sphere; <br>The measurement of a circle; <br>The properties of conoids, spheroids, and spirals; <br>The quadrature of the parabola. <br><br>This edition offers many valuable insights into the ancient mathematician's life and thought as well as the views of his contemporaries. <br>Modern mathematicians, physicists, science historians, and logicians will find this volume a source of timeless fascination. <br>This is the classic 1897 edition, with supplement of 1912.