A Description of Archimedes’s Works and Contributions to Science and Mathematics (369 words, 2 pages)
Archimedes (287-212 BC), preeminent Greekmathematician and inventor, who wrote important workson plane and solid geometry, arithmetic, and mechanics.Archimedes was born in Syracuse, Sicily, and educated inAlexandria, Egypt. In pure mathematics he anticipatedmany of the discoveries of modern science, such as theintegral calculus, through his studies of the areas andvolumes of ...
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