The surface area of the sphere is equal to 4 circles of the same radius. Surface area of a sphere. Image gallery Skip image gallery. Image caption, Click to see a step-by-step slideshow.

What's left is just the surface integral over the sphere - this gives the surface area of a sphere. Now, if I combine this with Gauss's Law I can solve for the magnitude of the electric field. BOOM.

Now, mathematicians have been spared that long wait — and have gotten far more than just a solution to the triple bubble problem. In a paper posted online in May, Milman and Joe Neeman, of the ...

Archimedes 287 B.C. - 212 B.C. Often considered the greatest ancient mathematician, he is credited with discovering several geometric principles, including the volume and surface area of a sphere ...