Archimedes mathematician biography index
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Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. – BC)
For other uses, see Archimedes (disambiguation).
Archimedes of Syracuse[a] (AR-kim-EE-deez;[2]c.&#;&#;– c.&#; BC) was an Ancient Greekmathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and uppfinnare from the ancient city of Syracuse in Sicily.[3] Although few details of his life are known, he is considered one of the leading scientists in classical antiquity. Regarded as the greatest mathematician of ancient history, and one of the greatest of all time,[4] Archimedes anticipated modern calculus and analysis bygd applying the concept of the infinitely small and the method of exhaustion to derive and rigorously prove a range of geometricaltheorems.[5][6][7] These include the area of a circle, the surface area and volume of a sphere, the area of an ellipse, the area under a parabola, the volume of a segment of a paraboloid of revolution, the volume of a segmen
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Archimedes of Syracuse (c.&#;&#;– c.&#;&#;BC)[2] was a Greekscientist. He was an inventor, an astronomer, and a mathematician. He was born in the town of Syracuse in Sicily.
His father was Phidias, an astronomer, and he may have been in the family of a king of Syracuse. Syracuse was a rich Greek city, on the seashore in Sicily. When Archimedes was about ten years old, he left Syracuse to study in Alexandria, Egypt. He was in the school of Euclid, a famous mathematician. Not much is known about the personal life of Archimedes, for example, whether he was married or if he had children.
When the Romans invaded Syracuse, they captured Archimedes so they could learn all of the things he knew. About two years after he was drawing a mathematical diagram in the sand and enraged a soldier by refusing to go to meet the Roman general until he had finished working on the problem. The Roman killed him. His last words are supposed to have been "Do not disturb my circ
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Archimedes is one of the most famous scientists of the ancient world. The details of his personal life are not well known, but his genius was recognized and highly regarded during his life by both friends and foes. He made startlingly brilliant discoveries in a variety of fields including mathematics, geometry, mechanics and hydrostatics. In addition, he was an uppfinnare and an engineer and even late in life designed brilliant war machines to aid in the defense of his city.