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Archimedes screw

          What did archimedes discover...

          Archimedes' contribution in mathematics

          Quick Info

          Born
          BC
          Syracuse, Sicily (now Italy)
          Died
          BC
          Syracuse, Sicily (now Italy)
          Summary
          Archimedes was the greatest mathematician of his age.

          His contributions in geometry revolutionised the subject and his methods anticipated the integral calculus. He was a practical man who invented a wide variety of machines including pulleys and the Archimidean screw pumping device.

          Biography

          Archimedes' father was Phidias, an astronomer.

          We know nothing else about Phidias other than this one fact and we only know this since Archimedes gives us this information in one of his works, The Sandreckoner. A friend of Archimedes called Heracleides wrote a biography of him but sadly this work is lost.

          Archimedes story

        1. Archimedes story
        2. Archimedes full name
        3. What did archimedes discover
        4. Archimedes education
        5. Archimedes' death date

          6. How our knowledge of Archimedes would be transformed if this lost work were ever found, or even extracts found in the writing of others.

          Archimedes was a native of Syracuse, Sicily. It is reported by some authors that he visited Egypt and there invented a device now known