Archimedes
Archimedes
Archimedes of Syracusewas an Ancient Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer. Although few details of his life are known, he is regarded as one of the leading scientists in classical antiquity. Generally considered the greatest mathematician of antiquity and one of the greatest of all time, Archimedes anticipated modern calculus and analysis by applying concepts of infinitesimals and the method of exhaustion to derive and rigorously prove a range of geometrical theorems, including the area of a circle, the...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionMathematician
math littles spheres
I am persuaded that this method [for calculating the volume of a sphere] will be of no little service to mathematics. For I foresee that once it is understood and established, it will be used to discover other theorems which have not yet occurred to me, by other mathematicians, now living or yet unborn.
men incredibles mathematics
There are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied Mathematics.
secret mathematics pure-love
Mathematics reveals its secrets only to those who approach it with pure love, for its own beauty.
distance points shortest straight
The shortest distance between two points is a straight line.
move shall wisdom
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
axes cylinders gravity
The centre of gravity of any cylinder is the point of bisection of the axis.
firsts easier investigation
Archimedes to Eratosthenes greeting. ... certain things first became clear to me by a mechanical method, although they had to be demonstrated by geometry afterwards because their investigation by the said method did not furnish an actual demonstration. But it is of course easier, when we have previously acquired by the method, some knowledge of the questions, to supply the proof than it is to find it without any previous knowledge.
moon earth sun
The diameter of the earth is greater than the diameter of the moon and the diameter of the sun is greater than the diameter of the earth.
earth perimeter greater
The perimeter of the earth is about 3,000,000 stadia and not greater.
firsts geometry theorems
How many theorems in geometry which have seemed at first impracticable are in time successfully worked out!
floating weight body
Any solid lighter than a fluid will, if placed in the fluid, be so far immersed that the weight of the solid will be equal to the weight of the fluid displaced. On floating bodies I, prop 5.
found
Eureka, Eureka! (I found it, I found it!).
distance two balance
Two magnitudes whether commensurable or incommensurable, balance at distances reciprocally proportional to the magnitudes.
writing spheres cylinders
Having been the discoverer of many splendid things, he is said to have asked his friends and relations that, after his death, they should place on his tomb a cylinder enclosing a sphere, writing on it the proportion of the containing solid to that which is contained.