Arquimedes
The greatest mathematician of ancient history
Archimedes of Syracuse (c. 287 – c. 212 BC) was a Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor,
and astronomer. Archimedes anticipated
modern calculus and analysis by applying concepts of infinitesimals 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; area of an ellipse; the area under a parabola; the volume of a segment of a paraboloid of
revolution;
the volume
of a segment of a hyperboloid of revolution; and the area of a spiral.
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