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(/ˌɑːkɪˈmiːdiːz/; Greek: Ἀρχιμήδης; c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
(“Archimedes of Syracuse”was a Greek
mathematician,
physicist,
engineer,
inventor,
and astronomer)
(although few details of his life are known, he is regarded as one of the leading scientists in ‘classical antiquity’)
(generally considered the greatest mathematician of antiquity and one of the greatest of all time, ‘Archimedes’ anticipated modern calculus and analysis by applying concepts of infinitesimals and the method of exhaustion to derive and rigorously prove a range of geometrical theorems, including the area of a circle, the surface area and volume of a sphere, and the area under a ‘parabola’)
(other mathematical achievements include deriving an accurate approximation of ‘pi’, defining and investigating the spiral bearing his name, and creating a system using exponentiation for expressing very large numbers)
(he was also one of the first to apply mathematics to physical phenomena, founding ‘hydrostatics’ and ‘statics’, including an explanation of the principle of the ‘lever’)
(he is credited with designing innovative machines, such as his ‘screw pump’, ‘compound pulleys’, and defensive war machines to protect his native Syracuse from invasion)
(‘Archimedes’ died during the ‘Siege of Syracuse’ when he was killed by a Roman soldier despite orders that he should not be harmed)
(‘Cicero’ describes visiting the tomb of ‘Archimedes’, which was surmounted by a sphere and a cylinder, which ‘Archimedes’ had requested to be placed on his tomb, representing his mathematical discoveries)
(unlike his inventions, the mathematical writings of ‘Archimedes’ were little known in antiquity)
(mathematicians from ‘Alexandria’ read and quoted him, but the first comprehensive compilation was not made until c. 530 AD by ‘Isidore of Miletus’ in ‘Byzantine Constantinople’, while commentaries on the works of ‘Archimedes’ written by ‘Eutocius’ in the 6th century AD opened them to wider readership for the first time)
(the relatively few copies of Archimedes’ written work that survived through the Middle Ages were an influential source of ideas for scientists during the Renaissance, while the discovery in 1906 of previously unknown works by Archimedes in the ‘Archimedes Palimpsest’ has provided new insights into how he obtained mathematical results)
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