Archimedes inventions

Top 10 facts

1. It is believed Archimedes was born 287 BC in Syracuse in Sicily, but we don't know his exact birth date.
2. Archimedes was killed by a Roman soldier when the Romans were conquering Syracuse.
3. Archimedes didn't invent the simple machine called the lever, but he helped explain how the lever works.
4. A biography on Archimedes was written by a friend of his, Heracleides, but this was later lost.
5. A lot of the information we have about Archimedes is anecdotal, which means that it is probably based in truth but has been added to with lots of details over thousands of years. For example, the story that Archimedes made an exciting discovery while soaking in his bath tub
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   Quick Info

   Born

   287 BC
   Syracuse, Sicily (now Italy)

   Died

   212 BC
   Syracuse, Sicily (now Italy)

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   Summary

   Archimedes was the greatest mathematician of his age. His contributions in geometry revolutionised the subject and his methods anticipated the integral calculus. He was a practical man who invented a wide variety of machines including pulleys and the Archimidean screw pumping device.

   Biography

   Archimedes' father was Phidias, an astronomer. We know nothing else about Phidias other than this one fact and we only know this since Archimedes gives us this information in one of his works, The Sandreckoner. A friend of Archimedes called Heracleides wrote a biography of him but sadly this work is lost. How our knowledge of Archimedes would be transformed if this lost work were ever found, or even extracts found in the writing of others.
   
   Archimedes was a native of Syracuse, Sicily. It is reported by some authors that he visited Egypt and there invented a device now known as Archimedes' screw. This is a pump, still used in many parts of the world. It is highly l

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   Biography of Archimedes for Kids

   I compiled a short biography of Archimedes for kids kindergarten through fourth grade in short story form.  Reading a story is how we begin our Math Games class at our local homeschool coop, PATH, and I’m happy to report, we’ve profited from the children’s love of a good story!   The children are eager to sit and listen during our brief story time, setting the perfect tone for a great learning session.  The main source for this Archimedes biography was the book “Mathematicians are People Too: Stories for the Lives of Great Mathematicians” by Luetta Reimer and Wilbert Reimer, although, their version is much longer, and therefore, more suitable for older children. I also consulted a few other websites that appeared first in my google searches.

   Mathematicians Are People Too

    

    

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