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Archimède sur la circonférence du cercle et l’aire du disque

Feature Column (AMS) : monthly essays on mathematical topics

Archimedes on the Circumference and Area of a Circle

The area of any circle is equal to a right-angled triangle in which one of the sides about the right angle is equal to the radius, and the other to the circumference, of the circle....

Bill Casselman
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Source :http://www.ams.org/samplings/feature-column/fc-2012-02

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