Archimedes of Syracuse

Archimedes is considered one of the three greatest mathematicians of all time along with Newton and Gauss. In his own time, he was known as "the wise one," "the master" and "the great geometer" and his works and inventions brought him fame that lasts to this very day. He was one of the last great Greek mathematicians.

Born in 287 B.C., in Syracuse, a Greek seaport colony in Sicily, Archimedes was the son of Phidias, an astronomer. Except for his studies at Euclid's school in Alexandria, he spent his entire life in his birthplace. Archimedes proved to be a master at mathematics and spent most of his time contemplating new problems to solve, becoming at times so involved in his work that he forgot to eat. Lacking the blackboards and paper of modern times, he used any available surface, from the dust on the ground to ashes from an extinguished fire, to draw his geometric figures. Never giving up an opportunity to ponder his work, after bathing and anointing himself with olive oil, he would trace figures in the oil on his own skin.

http://www.shu.edu/projects/reals/history/archimed.html

Archimedes (287? -212 B.C.)

http://www.math.unifi.it/archimede/archimede_inglese/

 The Garden of Archimedes:   A Museum for Mathematics

http://www.engineering.usu.edu/jrestate/workshop/buoyancy.htm

Archimedes of Syracuse: The Father of Buoyancy

http://www.waveswing.com/

Archimedes Wave Swing

http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Curves/Spiral.html 

Spiral of Archimedes

http://www.mcs.drexel.edu/~crorres/Archimedes/Screw/SourcesScrew.html

http://books.mirror.org/gb.archimedes.html

Links to Information About Archimedes

http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Archimedes.html

Archimedes of Syracuse (ca. 287-ca. 212 BC)

http://www.omogenia.com/arch.htm

ANCIENT ARCHIMEDES MANUSCRIPT

http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Archimedes.html

Archimedes of Syracuse

http://www.cut-the-knot.com/pythagoras/archi.shtml

Angle Trisection by Archimedes of Syracuse (circa 287 - 212 B.C.)

http://www.archimedes-lab.org/

ARCHIMEDES journal

http://www.mcs.drexel.edu/~crorres/Archimedes/contents.html

Quick facts about Archimedes . . .

http://www.math.utah.edu/~alfeld/Archimedes/Archimedes.html

Archimedes and the Computation of Pi