Archimedes 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. He found areas and volumes …showed first 75 words of 729 total…

…showed last 75 words of 729 total…many important discoveries and principles for us today. What helped me the most were encyclopedias, books and the Internet. I think I got enough information to basically point out the general account of it. I can’t really think of anything I can do differently. I learned that Archimedes was a very significant man of his time that was perfected pi, his principles and his inventions. He was far beyond any man’s thinking capabilities.