ARCHEMEDIAS

ARCHIMEDES

• Archimedes of Syracuse (287 BC – c. 212 BC) was an Ancient Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer
• Generally considered the greatest mathematician of antiquity and one of the greatest of all time
• he is regarded as one of the leading scientists in classical antiquity
• calculus and analysis by applying concepts of infinitesimals and the method of exhaustion
• Archimedes died during the Siege of Syracuse when he was killed by a Roman soldier

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• The foremost document containing the work of Archimedes is the Archimedes Palimpsest
• The most widely known anecdote about Archimedes tells of how he invented a method for determining the volume of an object with an irregular shape
• Archimedes lived for 75 years
• Archimedes used dust, ashes or any other available surface to draw his geometric figures
• was an Ancient Greek mathematician