Archimedes Life And Accomplishments

Archimedes was born in Syracuse, Sicily in 287 B.C and died in 212 B.C he was a greek inventor, mathematician, engineer, and astronomer his work is very beneficial to us still in the 21st century. Throughout his life most of his work include his mathematician works and physics. As a child Archimedes developed curiosity and became penchant for problem solving. After learning all that he could from his teachers in Syracuse he moved to Alexandria,Egypt and went to a school in which it was founded by Alexander The Great in 331 B.C Alexandria had a reputation for great learning. Euclid was one of the ones who lived there before Archimedes’ arrival Euclid’s work influenced Archimedes by the time he finished his studies in Alexandria he went back to …show more content…
There are many stories on how he made his discoveries one was where there was an attempt to cheat the king. One day King Hieron wanted a crown to be made and the person who made the crown would be given the amount needed to make the crown to the crown maker. When the crown was finished the king suspected that the crown maker took the gold for himself and that the crown was made of silver instead of gold, he could tell by the weight of the crown. He then told Archimedes to determine if the crown was made out of gold, but the catch was that he could not do anything to the crown such as melting it or anything that involved basically destroying it. Archimedes was baffled by this task he was told to do. Until one day when he was taking a bath and then it came to him he yelled out, “Eureka!” He found that if he would sit in the tub it overflowed, by using that he put the crown in water and measured the volume of the water