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Archimedes

The Famous Mathematician Archimedes

Archimedes was born in 287 B.C. in small self-governed town in Sicily. In 312 B.C. Syracuse, Sicily was captured by the Romans. The way Archimedes died is unknown. Some people believe that Archimedes was studying a mathematical diagram and a roman soldier ordered him to go meet General Marcellus but Archimedes refused saying he had to finish working on the matter and the soldier got furious at Archimedes and the soldier struck Archimedes and killed him. Archimedes was believed to be at age 75 when he was killed.
Archimedes father, Phidias, was an astronomer and believed one of his teachers and his biggest inspiration. Though not much is said ...

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had been made for King Hiero II, who had gave the pure gold to be used and Archimedes was asked to see if any silver had been used by the deceitful goldsmith. Archimedes was told he had to solve the problem without damaging the crown. So while taking a bath Archimedes discovered when he got in the tub the water rose so he decided to find the mass of the crown by using water. Thus finding out that silver was used in the crow.
Archimedes is definitely worth being call a mathematician because he was able to find different Solutions to many problems whether it be as small as 1+1 or 90x+17(123-567)= 20x(58774+86930)+8. I chose to do Archimedes for this paper because I have not only heard of him but he was brilliant and very Interesting and intelligent ...

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Added: 8/21/2014 10:32:15 PM
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