is a quote attributed to 1st century AD poet Manilius, which reads in Latin: Transire suum pectus mundoque potiri ("Rise above oneself and grasp the world"). Archimedes has appeared on postage stamps issued by East Germany (1973), Greece (1983), Italy (1983), Nicaragua (1971), San Marino (1982), and Spain (1963). The exclamation of Eureka! attributed to Archimedes is the state motto of California. In this instance, the word refers to the discovery of gold near Sutter's Mill in 1848 which sparked the California Gold Rush. See also Concepts Arbelos Archimedean point Archimedes' axiom Archimedes number Archimedes paradox Archimedean solid Archimedes' twin circles Methods of computing square roots Salinon Steam cannon Trammel of Archimedes People Diocles Pseudo-Archimedes Zhang Heng References Notes Citations Further reading Boyer, Carl Benjamin. 1991. A History of Mathematics. New York: Wiley. . Clagett, Marshall. 1964–1984. Archimedes in the Middle Ages 1–5. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press. Dijksterhuis, Eduard J. [1938] 1987. Archimedes, translated. Princeton: Princeton University Press. . Gow, Mary. 2005. Archimedes: Mathematical Genius of the Ancient World. Enslow Publishing. . Hasan, Heather. 2005. Archimedes: The Father of Mathematics. Rosen Central. . Heath, Thomas L. 1897. Works of Archimedes. Dover Publications. . Complete works of Archimedes in English. Netz, Reviel, and William Noel. 2007. The Archimedes Codex. Orion Publishing Group. . Pickover, Clifford A. 2008. Archimedes to Hawking: Laws of Science and the Great Minds Behind Them. Oxford University Press. . Simms, Dennis L. 1995. Archimedes the Engineer. Continuum International Publishing Group. . Stein, Sherman. 1999. Archimedes: What Did He Do Besides Cry Eureka?. Mathematical Association of America. . External links Heiberg's Edition of Archimedes. Texts in Classical Greek, with some in English. The Archimedes Palimpsest project at The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland Testing the Archimedes steam cannon 3rd-century BC Greek people 3rd-century BC writers People from Syracuse, Sicily Ancient Greek engineers Ancient Greek inventors Ancient Greek geometers Ancient Greek physicists Hellenistic-era philosophers Doric Greek writers Sicilian Greeks Mathematicians from Sicily Scientists from Sicily Ancient Greeks who were murdered Ancient Syracusans Fluid dynamicists Buoyancy 280s BC births 210s BC deaths Year of birth uncertain Year of death uncertain 3rd-century BC mathematicians 3rd-century BC Syracusans