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Archimedes of Syracuse[a] ( ˌɑːrkɪˈmiːdiːz AR-kih-MEE-deez; c 287 – c 212 BC) was an Ancient Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor from the ancient city of Syracuse in Sicily
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Archimedes, the most famous mathematician and inventor in ancient Greece He discovered the relation between the surface and volume of a sphere and its circumscribing cylinder
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Archimedes is best known for his invention of the Archimedes screw, application of the lever, and his mathematical advances He is said to have been so completely absorbed by intellectual pursuits that he would frequently forget to eat or bathe
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When it comes to mathematics, one name stands above all others: Archimedes His discoveries and writings shaped mathematical thought for millennia, from his plethora of geometrical findings to his accurate approximation of pi
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Archimedes is credited with one of the earliest methods for approximating the value of π (pi), the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter He used a method known as the method of exhaustion to estimate π by inscribing and circumscribing polygons around a circle
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Archimedes was well known for his inventions and scientific discoveries The most famous of these were the Archimedes' Screw (a device for raising water that is still used in crop irrigation
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One likely method relies on a proposition which Archimedes later wrote in a treatise, On Floating Bodies, and which is equivalent to what is now called Archimedes' principle: a body immersed in a fluid is buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of fluid displaced by the body
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Archimedes was, arguably, the world's greatest scientist - certainly the greatest scientist of the classical age He was a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, engineer, inventor, and weapons-designer
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