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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.he was educated under the successors of Euclid.
His father was an astronomer named Pheidias. he was very likely related to the family of King Hieron of
Syracuse. Although it is not clear whether the relationship with the king was personal or business.
Archimedes started felds of Hydrostatics ,pycnometry, and combinatorics, but he is most famous for his work in the punic war defending Syracuse. He found the value of pi which made it possible to calculate volume of sphere. Other works he did include density and volume, he science of water and the branch of that deals with counting combinations. The most valued part of his life was his calculations in Math. by means of polygons, he found approximation of pi(3.1428).Archimedes was finding square roots and he found a method based on the Greek myriad for representing numbers as large as 1 followed by 80 million billion zeros. The great Archimedes was also a perfectionist genius.
These two qualities underlie who he was and what he did. His perfectionist nature led him to work problems to completion and precision, sometimes working nonstop for many years. He also added to his repertoire a word that was so hard that it has only been solved by computer. The cattle problem asks the subject to find the number of each sort of bovine the sun god possessed. Very few people have found the answer because it took 660 pages to write out, or approximately 1650000 digits. IT is not clear why he made up this problem, may be for his own amusement or may be for a competition.
Archimeded also made another word problem which is a little more doable, called Rancher’s dilemma, and have much likely the same digits.
The war of the romans against the carthaginians led them into conflict with sicily and syracuse.
Archimedes’ greatest contribution to the world of war was the

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