Archimedes was a Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor and

Astronomer. Not many people knew the details of his life, but he is considered to be one

of the leading scientists in “classical antiquity”. Archimedes has had many advances in

his life among them physics, hydrostatics and the explanation of the principle of the

lever. He’s credited with designing innovative machines, including siege engine also the

screw pump that is named after him. Archimedes gave a remarkably accurate

approximation of Pi.

Archimedes was also able to use “infinitesimals in a way that is similar to modern

Integral calculus”. He also gave the square root to the outside of a circle as being 3. In the

Quadrate of the Parabola, Archimedes proved that the area enclosed by a parabola and

a straight line is 4/3 multiplied by the area of a triangle with equal base and height. He

expressed the solution to the problem as a geometric series that is......

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