ARCHIMEDIS

BASIC INFO

• Name Archimedes
• Born in 287 bc died In 212 bc lived 75 years
• Born in Syracuse Greece
• He was 75 years old when he died

HISTORIC EVENTS DURING HIS LIFETIME.

• Rome invaded Greece
• Lived through the first Punic war died in the second
• His tomb can not be found it was said to have been found twice.
• But no one knows the true location

EDUCATION

MARITIAL/FAMILY STATUS

OCCUPATION

3 CONTRIBUTIONS TO MATH

• He figured out how to find the area of a circle
• He found out the relationship of a sphere and a cylinder the same size
• He found out how to find the density of metal using water

2 INTERESTING EVENTS IN HIS LIFE

• His last words were supposedly do not disturb my circles
• he was hired by a king to find out if a blacksmith had cheated him
• By putting silver in his new crown

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• http://www.storyofmathematics.com/mathematicians.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes
• https://www.cs.drexel.edu/~crorres/Archimedes/contents.html

BY: ALEX KIRK