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    Archimedes was a renowned Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer and astronomer from Syracuse. He made significant contributions to the fields of mathematics and physics, developing concepts of calculus and applying them to derive geometrical theorems. He also applied mathematics to physical phenomena, founding the fields of hydrostatics and statics. Archimedes is considered one of the greatest mathematicians of all time.

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    Archimedes was a renowned Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer and astronomer from Syracuse. He made significant contributions to the fields of mathematics and physics, developing concepts of calculus and applying them to derive geometrical theorems. He also applied mathematics to physical phenomena, founding the fields of hydrostatics and statics. Archimedes is considered one of the greatest mathematicians of all time.

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    Archimedes of Syracuse (/ˌɑːrkɪˈmiːdiːz/;[2] Greek: Ἀρχιμήδης; c. 287 – c.

     212 BC) was


    a Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer.[3] 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,[4][5][6][7][8][9] 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.[10]
    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 be placed on his tomb to
    represent 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 sixth 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.[11][12][13]

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