Homework Help: Social Studies: People: Archimedes

Archimedes, a Greek mathematicians and an inventor, was born in about 285 B.C. He was the son He spent most of his time in Syracuse but later he became a student of Euclid in a school in Alexandria. He brought up many popular phrases such as, "Eureka, Eureka! (I got it!)" and got some cool nickname like " The Wise One" also. He was murdered in about 212 B.C by a Roman soldier when he was drawing in the sand. He also put an inscription of a pi on his grave.

He loved math very much and spent most of his time doing problems and finding new ways to solve them. He invented lots of things related to wars such as cranes, leverage, mirrors that would burn down ships using the sun's energy, and a catapult called the artillery.

One day King Hieron decided to get a crown for himself which was made out of pure gold and he gave the exact amount of gold to the craftsman. When he finally got the crown, he thought that the craftsman was being dishonest with him so he made Archimedes solve the problem. When he was taking the bath, he noticed that when he was in the water, the water rose up and that he felt his body get lighter. He decided to use the observation of the tendency to float in water, for the king's problem by putting the crown into the water and that is how he found out that the craftsman used silver so the king punished the craftsman severely later.

He loved to study geometry and he would spend all day drawing pictures. He studied spheres and cylinders and stated that a sphere was 2/3 of the volume of the cylinder His most famous discoveries were the pi (3.14), Archimedes's Principle, integral calculus, integration, and differential calculus. He made interesting contributions about the areas of plane figures and areas and volumes of curved figures. He also wrote books about methods of mechanical problems, the measurement of a circle, floating bodies, conoids and spheroids, equilibriums, and spirals.

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