61. Archimedes Of Syracuse: Introduction The next major advance came from menaechmus (ca. menaechmus then tacklesthe problem by solving every square root problem at once! http://cerebro.cs.xu.edu/math/math147/02f/archimedes/archintro.html

Archimedes of Syracuse Introduction: the greatest of Greek mathematicians In the third century BCE, Rome was involved in a series of military conflicts (the Punic Wars) with the Greek city-state of Carthage , situated across the Mediterranean Sea on the African coast . Caught in the middle of these conflicts was Syracuse, another city-state on the coast of Sicily, which was claimed by both sides. Initially allied with Carthage against Rome at the outset of the First Punic War in 263 BCE, Syracuse soon switched allegiance. The King of Syracuse, Hiero II , managed to keep war at bay by honoring this treaty with Rome, but the situation became precarious in the later years of the century as the Carthaginian general Hannibal was gaining the upper hand in Spain and Italy against poorly managed Roman armies. Archimedes (287 - 212 BCE), son of Phidias, an astronomer, was thought to have been a kinsman of Hiero. In his youth, Archimedes ventured to Alexandria in Egypt to avail himself of the best education to be found in the Greek world. There he would have been able to study the texts at the great Library of Alexandria, where Euclid had worked, and he made friendships with other philosopher-mathematicians, most notably Conon of Samos with whom he corresponded for many years. Archimedes eventually returned to Syracuse, where he earned fame as an "engineering consultant" to the king, inventing many clever devices for the military defense of the city: catapults, grappling hooks, and improvements to the architecture of the city walls.

62. World And Nation-State menaechmus' Discovery . Plato's student, menaechmus, supplied afurther discovery, by demonstrating that curves generated from http://www.larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2002/2002_30-39/2002-33/bruce3/gauss3.html

Home Page A Fugue Across 25 Centuries - Doubling of the Line, Square, and Cube - Menaechmus' Discovery ... From Fermat to Gauss From the Vol.1 No.25 issue of Electronic Intelligence Weekly Hyperbolic Functions: A Fugue Across 25 Centuries by Bruce Director (This pedagogical exercise is part of an ongoing series on ``Riemann for Anti-Dummies.'' See for example EIR April 12, 2002 and May 3, 2002 When the Delians, circa 370 B.C., suffering the ravages of a plague, were directed by an oracle to increase the size of their temple's altar, Plato admonished them to disregard all magical interpretations of the oracle's demand and concentrate on solving the problem of doubling the cube. This is one of the earliest accounts of the significance of pedagogical, or spiritual, exercises for economics. Some crises, such as the one currently facing humanity, require a degree of concentration on paradoxes that outlasts one human lifetime. Fortunately, mankind is endowed with what LaRouche has called, ``super-genes,'' which provide the individual the capacity for higher powers of concentration, by bringing the efforts of generations past into the present. Exemplary is the case of Bernhard Riemann's 1854 habilitation lecture, On the Hypotheses that Underlie the Foundations of Geometry

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64. Untitled 4. Discuss how intrigue or deception functions differently in the Braggart Soldierand in the Brothers menaechmus. Are the two plots basically similar? http://www.hfac.uh.edu/MCL/faculty/Armstrong/home/clas3371.q3.html

CLAS 3371 Question Sheet #3 Due Date: Dec. 4 Answer the following questions based on your readings. Each question deserves at least a concise paragraph. Some answers may be longer than a whole page. When in doubt, contact me: richarda@bayou.uh.edu. 1. Name and discuss briefly four features that distinguish New Comedy from Old Comedy. 2. Which is more central to the humor of the Old Cantankerous, plot or character? Or are the two in equal balance? How well made is the plot? How well drawn are the characters? 3. What is the point of the character's monologues before the audience in the Girl from Samos? Is this metatheatrical? Why or why not? What does it add to the characterization or the plot? 4. Discuss how intrigue or deception functions differently in the Braggart Soldier and in the Brothers Menaechmus. Are the two plots basically similar? Why or why not? 5. Discuss three different expository techniques in Plautus' comedies. 6. What is the purpose and function of Terence's prologues? How do they compare to Plautus’? 7. What is the function of fathers in New Comedy? Discuss your answer using a few examples.

65. Question Sheet 1 Question Sheet 2 Question Sheet 3 OCT. 25 Plautus The Braggart Soldier OCT. 28 Plautus Brothers menaechmus. OCT.30 Plautus Brothers menaechmus. NOV. 1 Plautus The Haunted House NOV. http://www.hfac.uh.edu/MCL/faculty/Armstrong/home/comedy.html

CLAS 3371 Ancient Comedy and Its Influence. section 12045 Dr. Richard Armstrong richarda@mail.uh.edu MWF 12-1pm AH 322 Petitioned Honors Credit. Performing / Visual Arts Common Core Credit. No prior knowledge of ancient literature or history is assumed. Students who are likely to find obscene language offensive are advised that some of the texts used contain considerable amounts of profanity. There will be a series of short written assigments tied directly to the readings and to some video productions; there will also be at least one quiz on terminology. In addition, there will be one final examination, but no midterm examination. All readings are in English translation. CLICK FOR: Grading Booklist Reading Schedule Assigned Question Sheets ... Links Basic Grading Breakdown 1. Written assignments (exact number to be determined): 70% 3. Final examination 20% Required booklist (please buy these specific translations): The Homeric Hymns . Tr. Susan Shelmerdine. Focus Publishing, 1995. Aristophanes' Acharnians . Tr. Jeffrey Henderson. Focus Publishing, 1992.

66. Initial-proposition CG / FB = FB / AC. We can use this last equation to set 3 equationthat can relate to a solution from menaechmus. The last equation http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~cs507/projects/1998/simonpie/initial-proposition.html

Initial Proposition I present here the philon line, as proposed by Philon , and two other ways of finding the same line to solve the duplication of the cube problem, one proposed by Apollonius and one by Heron Let AB and AC be two straight lines placed at right angles . Complete the rectangle ABDC (D is the point inside the angle through which the line shall be drawn). Let E be the center of the diagonal of the rectangle ABDC. Then a circle centered at E and going through D shall circumscribe the rectangle ABDC (note that the diameter will be AD). Philon's way Place a ruler so that it passes through D and pivot it on D until it cuts AB and AC produced and the circle ABDC in points F,G,H such that the intercepts FD and HG are equal. Apollonius's way Draw a circle centered in E and cutting the produced AB and AC in F and G respectively, but such that F,D and G are collinear Heron's way Place a ruler so that its edge passes through D, and move it about D until the edge intersects the produced AB and AC in points F and G respectively so that EF and EG are equals. Obviously the three constructions compute the same points F and G. In

67. Duplication Of The Cube have made such a mistake. menaechmus. menaechmus' solution is probablythe first one using the conic sections and their properties. http://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~cs507/projects/1998/zafiroff/

Duplication of the cube by Francois Rivest and Stephane Zafirov History Hippocrate Archytas Eudoxus ... End History Although Euclid solves more than 100 geometric construction problems in the Elements , many more were posed whose solutions required more than just compass and straightedge. Three such problems stimulated so much interest among later geometers that they have come to be known as the "classical problems": doubling the cube , i.e., constructing a cube whose volume is twice that of a given cube; trisecting the angle , i.e., constructing the third of an angle; and squaring the circle , i.e., constructing a square of area equal to that of a given circle. In what follows, we will be mainly concerned with the first of these problems: how to double a cube? One possible issue for the origin of the cube duplication problem is the following. An ancient tragic poet had represented Minos as dissatisfied with a tomb which he had put up to Glaucus, and which was only 100 feet each way. He therefore ordered it to be made double the size, the poet making him add that each dimension should be doubled for this purpose(!). The poet was, as showed von Wilamowitz, not Aeschylus or Sophocles or Euripides, but some obscure person who owes the notoriety of his lines to his ignorance of mathematics. Geometers took up the question and made no progress for a long time, until Hippocrates of Chios showed that the problem was reducible to that of finding two mean proportionals in continued proportion between two given straight lines. Again, after a time, the Delians were told by the oracle that, if they would get rid of a certain plague, they should construct an altar of double the size of the existing one. They consulted therefore Plato who replied that the oracle meant, not that god wanted an altar of double the size, but that he intended, in setting them the task, to shame the Greecs for their neglect of mathematics and their contempt for geometry. According to Plutarch

68. OUP USA: Four Comedies Four Comedies The Braggart Soldier; The Brothers menaechmus; The Haunted House;The Pot of Gold PLAUTUS Translated with an Introduction and Notes by ERICH http://www.oup-usa.org/isbn/0192838962.html

Classical Studies or Browse by Subject paper In Stock Standard Oxford World's Classics Higher Education Examination Copy Request ... Online Higher Education Comment Card Four Comedies The Braggart Soldier; The Brothers Menaechmus; The Haunted House; The Pot of Gold PLAUTUS Translated with an Introduction and Notes by ERICH SEGAL The first professional playwright in history, Plautus was the creator of racy, raucous, hilarious plays that will make modern audiences laugh as much as the first Romans did. The comedies printed here show him at his best, and Professor Segal's translations keep their fast, rollicking pace intact, making these the most readable and actable versions available. His introduction considers Plautus's place in ancient comedy, examines his continuing influence, and celebrates his power to entertain. Erich Segal is Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford. He was Professor Classics at Yale and is author of Roman Laughter , a study of Plautus. He also wrote Love Story 288 pp.; 0-19-283896-2 Publication dates and prices are subject to change without notice. Prices are stated in US Dollars and valid only for sales transacted through the US website.

69. The Pot Of Gold And Other Plays The Pot of Gold; The Prisoners; The Brothers menaechmus; The SwaggeringSoldier; Pseudolus Plautus Author EF Watling - Translator, $12.00, http://us.penguinclassics.com/Book/BookDisplay/0,1008,0140441492,00.html

document.writeln(""); document.write(''); document.write(''); document.write(''); document.write(''); document.write(''); document.write(''); document.write(''); document.writeln(''); document.writeln(''); document.writeln(''); document.writeln(''); document.write(''); document.write(''); The Pot of Gold and Other Plays The Pot of Gold; The Prisoners; The Brothers Menaechmus; The Swaggering Soldier; Pseudolus Plautus - Author E. F. Watling - Translator Book: Paperback SYM=GetSymbol(self.location.search); contentWritten="no"; Plautus's broad humor, reflecting Roman manners and contemporary life, is revealed in these five plays: The Pot of Gold (Aulularia), The Prisoners (Captivi), The Brothers Menaechmus (Menaechmi), The Swaggering Soldier (Miles Gloriosus) , and Pseudolus Plautus's broad humor, reflecting Roman manners and contemporary life, is revealed in these five plays: The Pot of Gold (Aulularia), The Prisoners (Captivi), The Brothers Menaechmus (Menaechmi), The Swaggering Soldier (Miles Gloriosus) , and Pseudolus Plautus's broad humor, reflecting Roman manners and contemporary life, is revealed in these five plays:

70. CONIBOS of this philosopher much attention was given to the geometry of solids, and it isprobable that while investigating the cone, menaechmus, an associate of Plato http://4.1911encyclopedia.org/C/CO/CONIBOS.htm

document.write(""); CONIBOS See Colonel J. R. J. Jocelyn in Journal of the Royal Artillery, vol. 32, No. II, and sources therein referred to. The account in the Dictionary of National Biography is very inaccurate. CONIBOS, or MANOAS, a tribe of South American Indians inhabiting the Pampa del Sacramento and the banks of the Ucayali, Peru. Spanish missionaries first visited them in 1683, and in 1685 some Franciscans who had founded a mission among them were massacred. A like fate befell a priest in. 1695. They have since been converted and are now a peaceful people. In projective geometry it is convenient to define a conic section as the projection of a circle. The particular conic into which the circle is projected depends upon the relation of the vanishing line “ to the circle; if it intersects it in real points, then the projection is a hyperbola, if in imaginary points an ellipse, and if it touches the circle, the projection is a parabola. These results may be put in another way, viz, the line at infinity intersects the hyperbola in real points, the ellipse in imaginary points, and the parabola in coincident real points. A conic may also be regarded as the polar reciprocal of a circle for a point; if the point be without the circle the conic is an ellipse, if on the circle a parabola, and if within the circle a hyperbola. In analytical geometry the conic is represented by an algebraic equation of the second degree, and the species of conic is solely determined by means of certain relations between the coefficients. Confocal conics are conics having the same foci. If one of the foci be at infinity, the conics are confocal parabolas, which may also be regarded as parabolas having a common focus and axis. An important property of confocal systems is that only two confocals can be drawn through a specified point, one being an ellipse, the other a hyperbola, and they intersect orthogonally.

71. Schiller Institute -Pedagogy - Hyberbolic Functions- A Fugue Across 25 Centuries menaechmus' Discovery. However, menaechmus' construction using a parabola andhyperbola, is carried out entirely in the flat domain of the shadows. http://www.schillerinstitute.org/educ/pedagogy/hyperbolic_bmd3.html

Home Search About Fidelio ... Dialogue of Cultures SCHILLER INSTITUTE Hyperbolic Functions: A Fugue Across 25 Centuries by Bruce Director May, 2002 This pedagogical exercise is part of an ongoing series on ``Riemann for Anti-Dummies.'' For more articles like this, visit the Schiller Institute Pedagogy List, which is updated frequently. To contact the authors, or Mr. LaRouche, who commissioned and directs these these pedagogical exercises, send an email to schiller@schillerinstitute.org . Each Figure is linked to a separate page. Use your back button to return to this article and this site. When the Delians, circa 370 B.C., suffering the ravages of a plague, were directed by an oracle to increase the size of their temple's altar, Plato admonished them to disregard all magical interpretations of the oracle's demand and concentrate on solving the problem of doubling the cube. This is one of the earliest accounts of the significance of pedagogical, or spiritual, exercises for economics. Some crises, such as the one currently facing humanity, require a degree of concentration on paradoxes that outlasts one human lifetime. Fortunately, mankind is endowed with what LaRouche has called, ``super-genes,'' which provide the individual the capacity for higher powers of concentration, by bringing the efforts of generations past into the present. Exemplary is the case of Bernhard Riemann's 1854 habilitation lecture, On the Hypotheses that Underlie the Foundations of Geometry, in which Riemann speaks of a darkness that had shrouded human thought from Euclid to Legendre. After more than 2,000 thousand years of concentration on the matter, Riemann, standing on the shoulders of his teacher, Carl F. Gauss, lifted that darkness, by developing what he called, ``a general concept of multiply-extended magnitude.''

72. Untitled Document reflective propert of parabola). The parabola was studied by menaechmuswho was a pupil of Plato and Eudoxus. He attempted to duplicate http://jwilson.coe.uga.edu/EMT668/EMAT6680.F99/Erbas/emat6690/Insunit/parabola/h

A Little Bit History of Parabola (Refer to history where it's appropriate!. For example you may refer to the Gregory and Newton 's works when you're dealing with the reflective propert of parabola) The parabola was studied by Menaechmus who was a pupil of Plato and Eudoxus . He attempted to duplicate the cube, namely to find side of a cube that has area double that of a given cube. Hence he attempted to solve x^3 = 2 by geometrical methods. In fact the geometrical methods of ruler and compass constructions cannot solve this (but Menaechmus did not know this). Menaechmus solved it by finding the intersection of the two parabolas x2 = y and y2 = 2x. Euclid wrote about the parabola and it was given its present name by Apollonius . The focus and directrix of a parabola were considered by Pappus Pascal considered the parabola as a projection of a circle and Galileo showed that projectiles follow parabolic paths. Gregory and Newton considered the properties of a parabola which bring parallel rays of light to a focus. Reference: http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Curves.html

73. Cleopatra Lesson Plan Plautus shows a slave being freed in his play Menaechmi the twin brothers Sosiclesand menaechmus free Sosicles’ slave, Messenio, who had brought them http://www.inform.umd.edu/clas/Latinday/citizenship.html

74. The Origins Of Greek Mathematics school. Members of the school included menaechmus gif and his brotherDinostratus gif and Theaetetus gif(c. 415369 BC); According http://www.math.tamu.edu/~don.allen/history/greekorg/greekorg.html

Next: About this document The Origins of Greek Mathematics Though the Greeks certainly borrowed from other civilizations, they built a culture and civilization on their own which is The most impressive of all civilizations, The most influential in Western culture, The most decisive in founding mathematics as we know it. Basic facts about the origin of Greek civilization and its mathematics. The best estimate is that the Greek civilization dates back to 2800 B.C. just about the time of the construction of the great pyramids in Egypt. The Greeks settled in Asia Minor, possibly their original home, in the area of modern Greece, and in southern Italy, Sicily, Crete, Rhodes, Delos, and North Africa. About 775 B.C. they changed from a hieroglyphic writing to the Phoenician alphabet. This allowed them to become more literate, or at least more facile in their ability to express conceptual thought. The ancient Greek civilization lasted until about 600 B.C. The Egyptian and Babylonian influence was greatest in Miletus, a city of Ionia in Asia Minor and the birthplace of Greek philosophy, mathematics and science. From the viewpoint of its mathematics, it is best to distinguish between the two periods: the

75. Footnotes . . . . .menaechmus menaechmus invented the conic sections. Only one branchof the hyperbola was recognized at this time. . . . . http://www.math.tamu.edu/~don.allen/history/greekorg/footnode.html

Theodorus proved the incommensurability of , , , ...,. Archytas solved the duplication of the cube problem at the intersection of a cone, a torus, and a cylinder. ...histories Here the most remarkable fact must be that knowledge at that time must have been sufficiently broad and extensive to warrant histories ...Anaximander Anaximander further developed the air, water, fire theory as the original and primary form of the body, arguing that it was unnecessary to fix upon any one of them. He preferred the boundless as the source and destiny of all things. ...Anaximenes Anaximenes was actually a student of Anaximander. He regarded air as the origin and used the term 'air' as god ...proofs. It is doubtful that proofs provided by Thales match the rigor of logic based on the principles set out by Aristotle found in later periods. ...incommensurables. The discovery of incommensurables brought to a fore one of the principle difficulties in all of mathematics - the nature of infinity. ...discovered as attested by Archimedes. However, he did not rigorously prove these results. Recall that the formula for the volume pyramid was know to the Egyptians and the Babylonians. ...Persians. This was the time of Pericles. Athens became a rich trading center with a true democratic tradition. All citizens met annually to discuss the current affairs of state and to vote for leaders. Ionians and Pythagorean s were attracted to Athens. This was also the time of the conquest of Athens by Sparta.

76. The Main Idea Methods Grading Assignments Meeting Times Textbooks 7. January 27 31 Romans, Sublimation, Archetypes ­ Galore Monday Plautus,The Brothers menaechmus Wednesday Plautus, The Brothers menaechmus Friday http://www.augustana.edu/academ/classics/CLHPwl226.html

The Classics Department of Augustana College World Literature 226: Classical Laughter Greek and Roman Comic Plays and Roman Satire Winter 2002-03 Three credits. L-suffix. Instructor: Thomas Banks The Main Idea Methods Grading ... Textbooks The Main Idea and Its Outcomes The main idea of the course is to explore the intellectual implications of two literary formscomedy and satirewhich center on the production of laughter as a catharsis. We do this via three ways of looking at those forms. Each way brings its controlling question. 1. The original social and historical context: What did they think and feel? 2. The forms as literature and performance: What do we think and feel? 3. The perennial patterns in human biological, psychological, and social relationships: What do comedy and satire do to (or for) human bodies and minds? The outcomes of the course are twofold, new and general. 1. New outcomes. These, from the course itself, are what one can do afterward that one probably couldn't do before: Link Classical comedies and satires to their original (social and philosophical and psychological) context.

77. Jooned Ellipsit uuris juba menaechmus, kes oli Platoni ja Eudoxose õpilane, seoses kuubidublikatsiooni probleemiga, kuid Eukleides andis ellipsi esmauurija nimetuse http://www.art.tartu.ee/~illi/kunstigeomeetria/koverad/jooned1.htm

Kuigi sirge on geomeetria algmõiste, andis talle üldise definitsiooni alles Jordan oma raamatus "Cours d'Analyse" aastal 1893. (vt ka sakraalgeomeetria Ellips on tasandiline joon, mille iga punkti kaugused kahest fikseeritud punktist (fookusest), annavad konstantse summa 2a. Ellipsit uuris juba Menaechmus, kes oli Platoni ja Eudoxose õpilane, seoses kuubi dublikatsiooni probleemiga, kuid Eukleides andis ellipsi esmauurija nimetuse Apolloniusele. Ellipsi fookused leidis Pappos. Sõna "fookus" pärineb Keplerilt, kelle esimene seadus ütleb, et kõik planeedid tiirlevad ümber Päikese mööda ellipsikujulisi orbiite, mille ühes fookuses asub Päike. 1705 aastal näitas Halley, et komeet, mis hiljem ristiti tema nime järgi, liigub mööda ellipsit, mille ekstsentrilisus on lähedane parabooli ekstsentrilisusele. Pascal konstrueeris parabooli kui ringjoone projektsiooni. ellipsi , n=3 saame Agnesi loki , n=2/3 saame astroidi ja juhul n=5/2 saame nn superellipsi, mis on palju rakendust leidnud arhitektuuris ja millele andis nime taani arhitekt ning poeet Piet Hein.

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79. The Harvard Classical Club Prologue Abby Carlin '04 Sponge Joshua Savage '04 menaechmus Benet Magnuson'06 menaechmus Sosicles Nick Reifsnyder '04 Erotium Meredith Berkowitz '06 http://hcs.harvard.edu/~classics/

Home Events Calendar Grants and Fellowships Constitution ... Email List Sign up here. Membership Forms Classical Club Eyes The Metropolitan Museum of Art February 28, 2003 It has just been announced that Professor Betsy Robinson has offered to lead a Classical Club trip to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York for a tour of Ancient Art and Architecture. The all-day trip will include lunch and a talk by Prof. Robinson. More information is forthcoming and space will be limited . All those interested should send a message to classics@hcs. Dersofi to Attend the Menaechmi February 28, 2003 Professor Nancy Dersofi , who was a member of the Harvard Classical Club in 1956 and performed in Oedipus at Colonos , will be in attendance at this year's production of the Menaechmi as a special guest of the Classical Club. She is now a tenured professor at Bryn Mawr College in Italian. Cast of the Menaechmi Announced February 13, 2003 After meeting over 50 talented and enthusiastic actors, the production staff of the Menaechmi have selected those who will be performing in the Classical Club's rendition of Plautus' comedy of errors. For a complete information including ticketing information, visit the Theatrical Productions section of the website.

80. Parabola -- From MathWorld The parabola was studied by menaechmus in an attempt to achieve cube duplication.menaechmus solved the problem by finding the intersection http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Parabola.html

Geometry Curves Plane Curves Algebraic Curves ... Polar Curves Parabola A parabola (plural "parabolas"; Gray 1997, p. 45) is the set of all points in the plane equidistant from a given line L (the conic section directrix ) and a given point F not on the line (the focus ). The focal parameter (i.e., the distance between the directrix and focus) is therefore given by , where a is the distance from the vertex to the directrix or focus. The surface of revolution obtained by rotating a parabola about its axis of symmetry is called a paraboloid The parabola was studied by Menaechmus in an attempt to achieve cube duplication . Menaechmus solved the problem by finding the intersection of the two parabolas and Euclid wrote about the parabola, and it was given its present name by Apollonius Pascal considered the parabola as a projection of a circle , and Galileo showed that projectiles falling under uniform gravity follow parabolic paths. Gregory and Newton considered the catacaustic properties of a parabola that bring parallel rays of light to a focus MacTutor Archive ), as illustrated above.

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