Brief biography of archimedes


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Born
287 BC
Syracuse, Sicily (now Italy)
Died
212 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. A friend of Archimedes called Heracleides wrote a biography of him but sadly this work is lost.

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