... Phidias, a well-known astronomer, he learned under the teachings of Euclid, the Greek mathematician in his school at Alexandria. Archimedes spent most of his entire life in his birthplace Syracuse. He was a master at mathematics and spent most of his time contemplating new problems to solve, becoming at ... Archimedes had invented many things, however it has been documented that Archimedes felt that his calling was directed towards the purely theoretical fields in Mathematics and Geometry. Well know for his approximation of the value of PI and for devising new ways for approximating squa...

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... born in Syracuse, Sicily in the year 287 B.C. He was educated in Alexandria, Egypt. Due to the lack of information about Greek mathematics, many Greek mathematicians and their works are hardly known. Archimedes is the exception. Archimedes was very preoccupied with mathematics. For instance, he often forgot to eat and bathe because of his always wanted to solve problems. He found areas and volumes ... of pi between 3 10/71 and 3 1/7. Math wasn't as sophisticated enough to find out the exact pi (3.14). Archimedes was finding square roots and he found a method based on the Greek myriad fo...

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... a series of giant lenses used to magnify the sun's rays and set Roman ships a blaze. The theorems that Archimedes discovered and worked on raised Greek mathematics to a whole new level. He undertook difficult problems in both mechanics and mathematics with great preserverence. Archimedes" theorems, postulates, and inventions are still part of society today. These are some of the reasons that some scolars rank ... ...

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Pappus of Alexandria. Pappus, regarded as an important Greek mathematician, was born in Alexandria in Egypt. His interest in mathematics is said to have began from when he observed a solar eclipse on October 18, 320 and then since has focused his work on geometry. Everything associated with Pappus mathematical mind ... mastered all the major available mathematical techniques. He writes well, shows great clarity of thought and the Mathematical Collection is a work of very great historical importance in the study of Greek geometry Other works which could have been written by Pappus include one...

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