Archimedes' quadrature of the parabola and minimal covers
Abstract
The generalization of Archimedes strategy to obtain the area of a parabolic segment leads to combinatorial formulas involving minimal covers of sets. These, in turn, are conjecturally related to q-binomial coefficients.
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