A Fresh Look at the Method of Archimedes
By Tom Apostol and Mamikon Mnatsakanian
The American Mathematical Monthly, vol. 111, no. 6, (2004)
Summary: Among Archimedes’ great discoveries is the fact that the volume of a solid sphere is two-thirds the volume of the smallest cylinder that surrounds it, and that the surface area of the sphere is also two-thirds the total surface area of the same cylinder. This paper generalizes Archimedes’ method to derive other interesting results about area and volume.
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