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The History of Calculus: Archimedes

Student-Run Research Seminar

Speaker: King David Manga, UC Davis
Location: 2112 MSB
Start time: Wed, May 24 2006, 12:10PM

Archimedes was the the first mathematician(after the Egyptian) to calculate the integral over x2. Using 3 ways approach, he arrived in 3 results. These 3 results have very different geometric appearance and the result of the answer involve 1/3.