Archimedes and biography

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    Archimedes and biography

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    Born
    BC
    Syracuse, Sicily (now Italy)
    Died
    BC
    Syracuse, Sicily (now Italy)
    Summary
    Archimedes was the greatest mathematician of his age.

    His contributions in geometry revolutionised the subject and his methods anticipated the integral calculus. He was a practical man who invented a wide variety of machines including pulleys and the Archimidean screw pumping device.

    Biography

    Archimedes' father was Phidias, an astronomer.

    We know nothing else about Phidias other than this one fact and we only know this since Archimedes gives us this information in one of his works, The Sandreckoner.

    Archimedes and biography pdf

    A friend of Archimedes called Heracleides wrote a biography of him but sadly this work is lost. How our knowledge of Archimedes would be transformed if this lost work were ever found, or even extracts found in the writing of others.



    Archimedes was a native of Syracuse, Sicily. It is reported by some authors that he visited Egypt and there invented a device now known