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    Archimedes was a famous Greek mathematician born around 287 BC in Syracuse, Sicily. He made important contributions to the field of mathematics and mechanical engineering. Archimedes died around 212 BC when Roman forces captured Syracuse during the Second Punic War. According to the story, he was concentrating on a mathematical diagram when a Roman soldier interrupted him and killed him with a sword. Archimedes is remembered for his work in geometry and for discovering mathematical principles still used today.

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    Archimedes was a famous Greek mathematician born around 287 BC in Syracuse, Sicily. He made important contributions to the field of mathematics and mechanical engineering. Archimedes died around 212 BC when Roman forces captured Syracuse during the Second Punic War. According to the story, he was concentrating on a mathematical diagram when a Roman soldier interrupted him and killed him with a sword. Archimedes is remembered for his work in geometry and for discovering mathematical principles still used today.

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    Archimedes was a famous Greek mathematician born around 287 BC in Syracuse, Sicily. He made important contributions to the field of mathematics and mechanical engineering. Archimedes died around 212 BC when Roman forces captured Syracuse during the Second Punic War. According to the story, he was concentrating on a mathematical diagram when a Roman soldier interrupted him and killed him with a sword. Archimedes is remembered for his work in geometry and for discovering mathematical principles still used today.

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    TUGAS BAHASA INGGRIS "BIOGRAPHY"

    Nama : Dina Tri Lestari


    Kelas : XI OTKP 3
    No.Absen : 07

    ARCHIMEDES

    Archimedes was born c. 287 BC in the seaport city of Syracuse, Sicily, at that time a self-
    governing colony in Magna Graecia, located along the coast of Southern Italy. The date of birth
    is based on a statement by the Byzantine Greek historian John Tzetzes that Archimedes lived for
    75 years. In The Sand Reckoner, Archimedes gives his father's name as Phidias, an astronomer
    about whom nothing is known. Plutarch wrote in his Parallel Lives that Archimedes was related
    to King Hiero II, the ruler of Syracuse. A biography of Archimedes was written by his friend
    Heracleides but this work has been lost, leaving the details of his life obscure. It is unknown, for
    instance, whether he ever married or had children. During his youth, Archimedes may have
    studied in Alexandria, Egypt, where Conon of Samos and Eratosthenes of Cyrene were
    contemporaries. He referred to Conon of Samos as his friend, while two of his works (The
    Method of Mechanical Theorems and the Cattle Problem) have introductions addressed to
    Eratosthenes.
    Archimedes died c. 212 BC during the Second Punic War, when Roman forces under General
    Marcus Claudius Marcellus captured the city of Syracuse after a two-year-long siege. According
    to the popular account given by Plutarch, Archimedes was contemplating a mathematical
    diagram when the city was captured. A Roman soldier commanded him to come and meet
    General Marcellus but he declined, saying that he had to finish working on the problem. The
    soldier was enraged by this, and killed Archimedes with his sword. Plutarch also gives a lesser-
    known account of the death of Archimedes which suggests that he may have been killed while
    attempting to surrender to a Roman soldier. According to this story, Archimedes was carrying
    mathematical instruments, and was killed because the soldier thought that they were valuable
    items. General Marcellus was reportedly angered by the death of Archimedes, as he considered
    him a valuable scientific asset and had ordered that he not be harmed. Marcellus called
    Archimedes "a geometrical Briareus".

    Cicero Discovering the Tomb of Archimedes by Benjamin West (1805)

    The last words attributed to Archimedes are "Do not disturb my circles", a reference to the
    circles in the mathematical drawing that he was supposedly studying when disturbed by the
    Roman soldier. This quote is often given in Latin as "Noli turbare circulos meos," but there is no
    reliable evidence that Archimedes uttered these words and they do not appear in the account
    given by Plutarch. Valerius Maximus, writing in Memorable Doings and Sayings in the 1st
    century AD, gives the phrase as "...sed protecto manibus puluere 'noli' inquit, 'obsecro, istum
    disturbare'" - "... but protecting the dust with his hands, said 'I beg of you, do not disturb this.'"
    The phrase is also given in Katharevousa Greek as "μὴ μου τοὺς κύκλους τάραττε!" (Mē mou
    tous kuklous taratte!).

    The tomb of Archimedes carried a sculpture illustrating his favorite mathematical proof,
    consisting of a sphere and a cylinder of the same height and diameter. Archimedes had proven
    that the volume and surface area of the sphere are two thirds that of the cylinder including its
    bases. In 75 BC, 137 years after his death, the Roman orator Cicero was serving as quaestor in
    Sicily. He had heard stories about the tomb of Archimedes, but none of the locals were able to
    give him the location. Eventually he found the tomb near the Agrigentine gate in Syracuse, in a
    neglected condition and overgrown with bushes. Cicero had the tomb cleaned up, and was able
    to see the carving and read some of the verses that had been added as an inscription.[14] A tomb
    discovered in the courtyard of the Hotel Panorama in Syracuse in the early 1960s was claimed to
    be that of Archimedes, but there was no compelling evidence for this and the location of his
    tomb today is unknown.

    The standard versions of the life of Archimedes were written long after his death by the
    historians o

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