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| Title: | The death of Archimedes (Professor Geoff Brooks) on Archimedes Day, 2011 |
| Creator: | Swinburne University of Technology |
| Date: | 2011 |
| Description: | The great Greek mathematician, physicist and engineer, Archimedes was famously killed by a Roman soldier. His death has been recreated at Swinburne as part of Archimedes Day events during National Science Week. Ten armoured centurions from Ringwood-based Ancient Hoplitikon ‘did away' with Swinburne head of mathematics Professor Geoff Brooks. “Archimedes Day is used to celebrate the contribution of mathematics to science and engineering through a combination of lectures, competitions and fun events," Professor Brooks said. This year, Archimedes' principle of a lever was demonstrated. Students had the opportunity to win a $100 prize by correctly estimating how many first year maths books are required to balance a professor. Photograph appeared in the Media Centre Release: ‘Archimedes has ‘died’ again at Swinburne’ on 16 August 2011. |
| Permanent link: | http://images.swinburne.edu.au/handle/1111.1/5742 |
| Copyright: | Copyright owned by Swinburne University of Technology. Permission for limited re-use is provided under the terms of the Australian Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives (by-nc-nd) licence. |
| Copyright link: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/au/ |
| Related material: | http://www.swinburne.edu.au/chancellery/mediacentre/media-centre/news/2011/08/archimedes-has-died-again-at-swinburne |
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