Archimedes – physicist, engineer, inventor, astronomer and also one of the greatest mathematicians of all time.
He introduced mankind to the number pi, found a way to determine the area of the arc of the parabola. He also defined the spiral that bears his name, formulating the volumes of rotating surfaces.
Among his physics innovations, the most prominent are the fundamental principles of hydrostatics, statics, and the principle of leverage.
Archimedes is truly the greatest inventor of all time because he studied all this more than 2,000 years ago and didn’t have any help from computers or other technologies available to science. study like today.
Here are 5 quotes from Archimedes’ life:
1 . Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
Give me a fulcrum, I’ll lift the earth.
2 . Mathematics reveals its secrets only to those who approach it with pure love, for its own beauty.
Mathematics reveals its secrets only to those who come with pure love for its beauty.
3 . There are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied Mathematics.
There are many things that exist that most people who have never studied Math will find it hard to believe.
4 . Eureka! Eureka!
Found it! Found it!
5. Many people believe that the grains of sand are infinite in multitude … Others think that although their number is not without limit, no number can ever be named which will be greater than the number of grains of sand.
But I shall try to prove to you that among the numbers which I have named there are those which exceed the number of grains in a heap of sand the size not only of the earth, but even of the universe.
There are some who think that the number of grains of sand is infinite out of an infinite number… Others think that although the number of grains of sand is not infinite, there is no number we can name that is greater than the number. amount of sand grains.
But I want to tell you that of the numbers I have named, there are more numbers than the number of grains of sand in a pile of sand the size of the earth, even the universe.