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Archimedes (mathematician)
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full name | Archimedes date of birth | ~~ BC ( years ago) place of birth | Syracuse, Sicily, Italy date of death | BC (age: years) ( years ago) place of death | Syracuse, Sicily, Italy
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Greek astronomer, engineer, inventor, mathematician, and physicist, considered a leading classical-era scientist Made advances in physics which form the basis of hydrostatics and statics, and credited with designing the eponymous screw pump His greatest work was in geometry, including his remarkably accurate calculation of an approximation of pi Used the method of exhaustion to compute the area inside a circle by filling the circle with a polygon of an increasing number of sides Explained the physics of the principle of the lever, remarking, "Give me a place to stand on, and I will move the Earth" Killed by a Roman soldier during the Siege of Syracuse