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Archimedes' Most Important Contributions to the Field of Mathematics

A great scientist, physician, mathematician, and engineer of ancient Greece - Archimedes utilized maths in order to explain the mechanics of daily life. He contributed a number of revolutionary tools.

Alongside the likes Newton, Pythagoras, Thales, Descartes, Einstein and others - Archimedes finds a place amongst the some of the great mathematicians and scientists in the history of the mathematical world. Let’s delve into the remarkable achievements of Archimedes and explore how his work continues to resonate in the field of mathematics.

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TED-Ed

Archimedes, under great pressure, created the world’s first floating cruise ship, the Syracusia. But, who was Archimedes? What else is he famous for? How about the catapult, a light-focusing mirror to burn invading ships, the Archimedes screw, and several math theorems? Read a short biography of him hereand here. History says that Archimedes, so focused on his math calculations, that when confronted by a Roman soldier to leave, refused and was killed.

Archimedes Principle of Buoyancyis one of his most famous calculations. Watch this lesson from TED Ed: How taking a bath led to Archimedes Principle by Mark Salata.The Archimedes Principle Songputs this whole concept to music! Listen and learn. How brilliant was Archimedes? Was he a man before his time? Watch Archimedes Secretand learn more about this amazing individual.

Eureka! Did Archimedes really coin this phrase? Read this Fact or Fiction Smithsonian articleand get some insight into this question!

What is the Archimedes Palimpsest?Find out here! Then listen to this TED talk on: Revealing the lost codex of
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The Archimedes Palimpsest

At 2pm on October 29th, 1998, at Christie's auction house in New York, a very special old book was sold to an anonymous collector for $2,000,000. This collector deposited the manuscript at The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore in order to conserve it, image it, and study it. The book is special because it contains seven treatises by the ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes. Two of these treatises, The Stomachion and The Method exist nowhere else in the world. This book is also the unique source for Archimedes' treatise On Floating Bodies in the original Greek. The Archimedes Palimpsest, as this book is called, has true claims to greatness: it is the earliest surviving Archimedes manuscript by about 400 years; it is the most important source for the diagrams that Archimedes drew in the sand in Syracuse, in the third century B.C. It is by far the most important evidence we have for the greatness of Archimedes. And Archimedes was a very great man.

Paleography, or the study of ancient texts, can allow us to approximately date when manuscripts were wr

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