List of things named after Archimedes
Appearance
Archimedes (c. 287 BC – c. 212 BC) is the eponym of all of the things (and topics) listed below.
Mathematical concepts
[edit]- Archimedean absolute value
- Archimedean circle
- Archimedean copula
- Archimedean group
- Archimedean ordered field
- Archimedean point
- Archimedean property
- Archimedean solid
- Archimedean spiral
- Archimedean tiling
- Archimedes' axiom
- Archimedes' cattle problem
- Archimedes' hat-box theorem
- Archimedes constant
- Archimedes number
- Archimedes' quadruplets
- Archimedes Square
- Archimedes' twin circles
- Heron–Archimedes formula
- Non-Archimedean geometry
- Non-Archimedean ordered field
- Archimedes' ostomachion
Physical concepts
[edit]Technology
[edit]Things invented by Archimedes
[edit]Other
[edit]Computer hardware and software
[edit]Oath
[edit]- The Archimedean Oath, taken by some engineers
Astronomical names
[edit]Written works of Archimedes
[edit]- Archimedes Palimpsest (Numerous written works of Archimedes survive. This is the only one whose conventional name includes his.)
Other
[edit]- Archimedes, Merlin's owl in T. H. White's novel The Sword in the Stone and its adaptations
- Archimedes (bryozoan)
- Archimedes-lab.org
- Pseudo-Archimedes