List of things named after Archimedes
Archimedes (c. 287 BC – c. 212 BC) is the eponym of all of the things (and topics) listed below.
Mathematical concepts
- 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
- Archimedes paradox
- Archimedes' principle
Technology
Things invented by Archimedes
- Archimedes' pulley
- Archimedes' screw
- Archimedes heat ray
- Claw of Archimedes
- Trammel of Archimedes
Other
- Archimedes bridge
- Archimede combined cycle power plant
- SS Archimedes
Computer hardware and software
Oath
- The Archimedean Oath, taken by some engineers
Astronomical names
- 3600 Archimedes
- Archimedes (crater)
- Montes Archimedes
Written works of Archimedes
- Archimedes Palimpsest (Numerous written works of Archimedes survive. This is the only one whose conventional name includes his.)
Other
- 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
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gollark: Kantian ethics is the system Kant came up with, which I don't know that much about.
gollark: Deontological systems have rules like "do not kill people", and many deontologists would *not* divert the trolley because they feel like they're killing people one way and not the other.
gollark: Deontology in action!
gollark: And what you should do is the moral thing, yes.
gollark: Anyway! "Consequentialism" basically says "do whatever produces the best eventual outcome (by some metric)", so a consequentialist would probably say "well, 1 people dying is better than 5, so divert the trolley".
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