Archimedes of Syracuse
Archimedes was an ancient Greek mathematician, physicist,engineering astronomer and inventor from the ancient city of Syracuse in Sicily.Although few details of his life are known,he is regarded as one of the leading scientists in classical antiquity. He is considered to be the greatest mathematician of ancient history, and one of the greatest of all time .
Archimedes anticipated modern calculus and analysis by applying the concept of the infinitely small and the method of exhaustion to derive and rigorously prove a range of geometrical theorems including: The area of a circle;the surface area and volume of a sphere; the area of an ellipse; the area under parabola; the volume of a segment of a paraboloid of revolution; the volume of a segment of hyperboloid of revolution; and the area of a spiral.
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