Achemdiues

Achemdiues Greek mathematician who flourished in Sicily. He is generally considered to be the greatest mathematician of ancient times. Most of the facts about his life come from a biography about the Roman soldier Marcellus written by the Roman biographer Plutarch. Archimedes performed numerous geometric proofs using the rigid geometric formalism outlined by Euclid, excelling especially at computing areas and volumes using the method of exhaustion. He was especially proud of his discovery for finding the volume of a sphere, showing that it is two thirds the volume of the smallest cylinder that can contain it. At his request, the figure of a sphere and cylinder was engraved on his tombstone. In fact, it is often said that Archimedes would have invented calculus if the Greeks had only possessed a more tractable mathematical notation. By inscribing and circumscribing polygons on a circle, for instance, he was able to constrain the value of (pi ) between 3 10/71 and 3+1/7. Archimedes roman, geometric, archimedes, buoyancy, volume, using, syracuse, sphere, soldier, siege, said, proofs, principle, outlined, mathematician, invented, figure, especially, cylinder, about, written, while, weight, volumes, value, upside, upon, two, turn, tractable, tombstone, times, through, thirds, taking, supposed, sun's, streets, states, snapping, smallest, single-handedly, sicily, showing, shouting, ships, screw, sand, run