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The 33 pages that link to Archimedes, each with the reason it gives.

• Hellenistic periodRelated: His work exemplifies the period’s advances in mathematics and mechanics.

• Fluid mechanicsRelated: His buoyancy principle remains a basic result for fluids in gravitational fields.

• EuclidRelated: Archimedes worked in the rigorous geometric tradition that Euclid’s Elements helped establish.

• CalculusRelated: His geometric techniques foreshadowed integral calculus through increasingly fine approximations.

• Heron's formulaRelated: A formula equivalent to Heron's appears in a proposition attributed to Archimedes.

• ElevatorRelated: Ancient accounts associate him with an early human-powered lifting device.

• Fundamental theorem of calculusRelated: His work on area anticipated integral accumulation long before calculus.

• Archimedes' principleRelated: The principle bears his name and is traditionally linked to his study of floating bodies.

• Ancient Greek mathematicsRelated: His work pushed Greek geometric methods to exceptional levels of precision and ingenuity.

• Antikythera mechanismRelated: Cicero describes his spherical planetaria, the closest known ancestors of the mechanism's tradition.

• Eudoxus of CnidusRelated: Archimedes extended the exhaustion method to areas and volumes.

• Greek mathematicsRelated: His proofs and measurement techniques reached exceptional precision within ancient mathematics.

• PulleyRelated: Ancient accounts associate him with demonstrations of compound pulley systems.

• SyracuseRelated: His machines and mathematical work made Syracuse a center of Hellenistic engineering.

• Apollonius of PergaRelated: He was a near contemporary whose mathematical achievements share Apollonius's Hellenistic setting.

• InfinitesimalRelated: His work used exhaustion and also anticipated infinitesimal-style arguments.

• Method of exhaustionRelated: He refined exhaustion into some of antiquity's most powerful area and volume proofs.

• Archimedes' screwRelated: Ancient tradition associates the water-raising device with Archimedes, though its invention is uncertain.

• Integral calculusRelated: His method of exhaustion anticipated integral techniques for finding areas and volumes.

• Aristarchus of SamosRelated: Archimedes is the principal surviving source for Aristarchus’s heliocentric hypothesis.

• History of calculusRelated: His work on areas and volumes became a major precursor to integration.

• Archimedean propertyRelated: The property bears his name because it formalizes a principle associated with his comparisons of magnitudes.

• Pappus of AlexandriaRelated: The Collection preserves important accounts of Archimedean methods and results.

• Cavalieri's principleRelated: His comparisons of solids anticipated reasoning based on matching cross-sections.

• History of geometryRelated: His exhaustion methods anticipated techniques later central to calculus.

• Ancient Greek technologyRelated: His writings and inventions became enduring examples of Greek applied mechanics.

• MenaechmusRelated: Archimedes later developed methods for cube duplication that used intersections of conic sections.

• Hiero II of SyracuseRelated: He worked in Hiero’s Syracuse and was associated with the king’s engineering projects.

• Mathematical constantRelated: His bounds for the circle’s circumference helped establish early numerical estimates of π.

• Commandino's theoremRelated: His work on solids and volume formed part of the tradition surrounding the theorem.

• Pappus's area theoremRelated: His work on centers of gravity forms part of the theorem’s broader historical background.

• Science in classical antiquityRelated: His proofs and inventions joined abstract mathematics with physical problems.