Thursday 14 July 2011
Archimedes of Siracuse
Archimedes of Syracuse (287 BC-212 BC) was a Greek mathematician, inventor and astronomer. He is famous for using the method of exhaustion to compute the area of a shape by filling the circle with a polygon of a greater and greater number of sides. He was killed during the second Punic war by a roman soldier which didn't known who he was. Cicero wrote about his visit to Archimedes' tomb, which was surmounted by a sphere inscribed within a cylinder.
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Fair account. For me the name of Archimedes is connected to the invention of the method of calculation of volume of 3D objects using the phenomenon of water displacement.
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