by leah crenshaw archimedes
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Biography Archimedes was born in 287 BC. He lived his life in Syracuse, Sicily. He was a famous mathematician. He lived in service of the king of Sicily. He died during the Siege of Syracuse in 211 BC.TRANSCRIPT
ARCHIMEDESBy Leah Crenshaw
BIOGRAPHY Archimedes was
born in 287 BC. He lived his life in
Syracuse, Sicily. He was a famous
mathematician. He lived in service of
the king of Sicily. He died during the
Siege of Syracuse in 211 BC.
MAJOR WORKS The Quadrature of the Parabola On Floating Bodies On The Equilibrium of Planes The Sand Reckoner On the Sphere and the Cylinder The Method of Mechanical
Theorems On Conoids and Spheroids On the Measurement of a Circle
CONTRIBUTIONS TO GEOMETRY Volume of an
Irregular Shape Sphere’s Volume
in Relation to a Cylinder
Hydrostatics Archimedes
Screw
Archimedes was assigned to figure out how much gold was in the king’s crown
He needed to know how to find the volume without melting it As he got into the bath one day, he saw the water splash over
the edges of the bath and suddenly understood how to do it. He reportedly ran through the town wearing nothing and
shouting “Eureka!” which means “I have found it!”
THE SIEGE OF SYRACUSE In the year 211 BC Syracucse
was besieged and eventually invaded
As soldiers ran through the city, killing everyone they saw, a soldier came upon Archimedes.
He was drawing circles in the sand and staring intently at them.
When he saw the soldier come near to his drawing he said “Don’t disturb my circles.”
The soldier, enraged, drew his sword and killed him.
THE END