Archimedes is regarded as one of the greatest scientists of all time, and most of his inventions, theories, and discoveries are used even to this day. Archimedes was born sometime in the year 287 BC, in Syracuse Sicily (Mac).
His father, Phidias, who was an astronomer, and his mother, which little information is given about, were natives to Sicily. Archimedes is said to be related to Hiero II, meaning he would have lived a somewhat royal life (Famous). Being of one of the Greek, he was to study and be more intelligent than other countries children. Not only where his favorite studies math and science, there were also poetry, music, art, astronomy, politics, and military.
After gaining an above average education, he got to study at Euclid, a well-known math school (Mac). While he was there, he got into a habit of sending theories into the school, but without putting any proofs with the statement, which let the other mathematicians claim as their own work. This, in turn, prevented him from becoming possibly better known that he already is today, or perhaps could have helped him in the long run in inventing his brilliant contraptions.
While he was in school, he studied with some of the most brilliant scientists of his time, and even long time afterword’s, Conon of Samos, and Eratosthenes of Cyrene. With these two helping Archimedes, he would become one of the greatest and well known scientists of all time. (Famous)
One of Archimedes first discoveries was when he was assigned the task of seeing if King Hiero II’s crown was pure gold, or was mixed. The man that they bought the crown from was questionable, and many thought that it was a mixture of gold and silver (Mac).
One day, while he was taking a bath, he sat down and noticed as...
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... Archimedes, as well as a picture of a sphere in a cylinder, on the medal. He was also put on many stamps in different countries, such as Germany in 1973, and Spain in 1963 (Famous). There have also been countless statues created in his image. All of these things dedicated to Archimedes shows that he is regarded as one of the greatest inventors and mathematicians of all time, and most of his known inventions and discovers are still used to this day.
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He was born from a rich family and did not know what to do in his life. He was very intelligent and he had many insight in language and mathematics.
...ostly remembered for his eccentric lifestyle. His prosthetic nose made of precious metals is a familiar tale. The story of his pet moose lives on, even though the moose did not. His ignominious death is almost common knowledge. Even as far as his astronomical work is concerned, outside of the scientific community, he is perhaps best-known for his geoheliocentric universe, which was later so strongly disproven by his own assistant.
Archimedes was a Greek mathematician and scientist. He was born in Syracuse, Sicily in the year 287 B.C. He was educated in Alexandria, Egypt. Due to the lack of information about Greek mathematics, many Greek mathematicians and their works are hardly known. Archimedes is the exception. Archimedes was very preoccupied with mathematics. For instance, he often forgot to eat and bathe because of his always wanted to solve problems.
In the time when he was studying medicine, he made a very important science discovery that started his career. One day at church service on Sunday he looked up at a lamp and the lamp was swinging on a long cord back and forth. Its swing was very regular and he used his own pulse to measure the sing. He noticed even as the swing grew shorter the amount of time for a single was the same. Later he went home and conducted many experiments with different lengths and weights. Then he concluded that the string length affected the swing. Soon he created the pendulum and used the same principle to make a pulsilogia which is a device that measures your pulse (Hightower 17-20).
The life of Archimedes was one of intense and interesting significance. He was born in 287 BC in a seaport city of Syracuse called Sicily. Sicily was a self-governing colony in Magna Graecia, which was in Southern Italy. Plutarch wrote about Archimedes in his book Parallel Lives, which he said Archimedes was related to King Hiero ll, the ruler of Syracuse. There was said to be a biography of Archimedes written by his friend Heracleides, but it has been lost and thus making Archimedes life a bit unknown and obscure. Archimedes was brought up in what has now come to be known as the Hellenistic period. The word “Hellenistic” comes from the word Hellenes, which is greek word for “Greek.” This period of time started when Alexander the Great died in 323 BC, and it ended with Rome’s occupation of the last major Hellenistic kingdom in approximately 30 BC. During the Hellenistic period, the Greek influence of ideas and culture spread, and the language was used often for trading and commerce purpose. During this time period, life was very flourishing...
A little info: Archimedes was a Greek Mathematician who was born in 287 BC and died in 212 BC. He was born in Syracuse, Sicily; during this time, the city was an independent Greek city-state which held a 500-year history. At the Siege of Syracuse Romans at the siege were specifically ordered not to harm Archimedes but he later was pronounced dead by being stabbed by a Roman soldier. His father (Phidias) was an astronomer and is believed to be related to the King of Syracuse. This information was found in his work “The Sand Reckoner.” Archimedes was labeled as one of the top scientists in classical antiquity. In those times, when blackboards and paper were not yet around, Archimedes constructed ashes, dust or all any available surface to help sketch his geometric figures. It’s been told that he used to get so intrigued with all of the work he did that sometimes he forgot to eat, skipped a meal or two just to finish on the project. He was considered the greatest mathematician in antiquity and possibly the greatest of all time.
Born between 530-569 B.C. Pythagoras of Samos is described as the first "pure mathematician." Pythagoras' father was Mnesarchus of Tyre and Pythais of Samos. Mnesarchus was a merchant who was granted citizenship after he brought corn to Samos during a famine. The citizenship was an act of gratitude. There are accounts that Pythagoras traveled widely with his father, even back to his father's home, Tyre and Italy. During these travels Pythagoras was educated by Chaldaeans and learned scholars in Syria.
In the book Practica Geometriae, geometry problems seemed to be his main focus. The book was arranged into 8 chapters with theorems based on Euclid's Elements and On Divisions. One can say that the authors of the books and him worked togetherbecause of the great influence he received from them. Once people found out about Fibonacci being a ge...
... eventually used his abilities in both math and science to help his interest in alchemy. Alchemy is producing gold from other metals as well as discovering cures for illnesses. Many philosophers had believed and tried alchemy using science and math alchemy was proved not possible.
He was one of the first who created the "looker" (now called telescope) by placing two pieces of lenses together. The discovery that placing lenses together can magnify images was made by children who took Lippershey's spectacles and looked at a distant church tower. One of the most influential scientists associated with the telescope has to be Galileo. He took the design and reinvented the telescope into one of the first refractive telescopes we use to this day. Galileo used this great invention to report astronomical facts such as the moon is covered with craters instead of being smooth, the Milky Way is composed of millions of stars, and Jupiter has four moons.
Euclid and Archimedes are two of the most important scientists and mathematicians of all time. Their achievements and discoveries play a pivotal role in today’s mathematics and sciences. A lot of the very basic principles and core subjects of mathematics, physics, engineering, inventing, and astronomy came from the innovations, inventions, and discoveries that were made by both Euclid and Archimedes.
When Galileo Galilei was younger many interesting things happened . Galileo galilei was born in Pisa,Italy ; to Vincenzo Galilei and Giulia Ammannati . As a child Galileo was the eldest of six children yet only four of the names are known because the other 2 children did not survive infancy . Michelangelo was the youngest of the six children. Galileo's full name was Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti da' Galilei. At the age of 8, his family moved to Florence, but he was sent to live with Jacopo Borghini for two years. Galileo was proved to be very intelligent as a child . Galileo was a young boy who enjoyed music and painting as expected because of the household he lived in , Galileo was always constructing mechanical toys for his amusement . Vincenzio was determined his son should learn and inherit his business of selling wool , but he made it his top priority to get him well-educated . When Galileo was 10, his father sent him to a nearby school ; the school was the monastery at Santa Maria Vallombrosa . Monks would teach Galileo to prepare him for University . Galileo studied many different subjects such as Latin,Greek,Logic, and Religion .Galileo became skilled on several musical instruments such as the lute . Galileo also wrote some poems as a kid . Most of what Galileo studied was from the writing of St. Thomas Aquinas . Aquinas was a priest and philosopher who lived from 1226 to 1274 ; he studied ideas of the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle.
No other scholar has affected more fields of learning than Blaise Pascal. Born in 1623 in Clermont, France, he was born into a family of respected mathematicians. Being the childhood prodigy that he was, he came up with a theory at the age of three that was Euclid’s book on the sum of the interior of triangles. At the age of sixteen, he was brought by his father Etienne to discuss about math with the greatest minds at the time. He spent his life working with math but also came up with a plethora of new discoveries in the physical sciences, religion, computers, and in math. He died at the ripe age of thirty nine in 1662(). Blaise Pascal has contributed to the fields of mathematics, physical science and computers in countless ways.
Archimedes had huge contribution in mathematics filed since he loved mathematics so much. He used his entire life to discover the mathematics field. He has contribution in integral calculus, calculate the value of pie and fluid displacement.