Archimedes Research Paper

Integrals have been around for hundreds of years and have been used in several ways to solve complicated math problems. An integral is a function that expresses the area under the curve of a graph of a function. The first time the technique was brought forward was by a greek astronomer Eudoxus in the 370 BC. He used the technique called as the method of exhaustion which helped him find area or volume. The way he achieved this was using infinite numbers of division. Later Archimedes came along in the 3rd century BC and used the method of exhaustion to find the area of parabolas and even the area of a circle. Cavalier came later on and found the Cavalier quadrature formula but by the most recent evolution of integrals because the fundamental …show more content…
Archimedes was born in the island of sicily in 287 BC. Archimedes left his home town to travel to Alexandria to study in Egypt. Not only was he great at math but he also was an engineer and found many important things like the archimedes screw and was able to figure out if the the crown of a king was solid cold or the blacksmith stole the gold and made it impure. Archimedes is known for many things but him find the area of a parabolas is the most important thing to the world of …show more content…
He helped developed differential and integrals calculus along with Newton. Leibniz was born on july 1st 1646. He was the one who discovered the coefficients of systems of linear equations. Leibniz also has a important formula for pi. The formula concludes that 1 - ⅓ +⅕ - 1/7 + = Pi/4. Leibniz was so smart and discovered many thing. He was known to be the first computer scientist due to his binary numeral system. Besides the main founders there are also some not as famous people who helped find the area of circle in the 3rd century. This person was known as Liu Hui from china. He used this method to find the volume of a sphere but did not make it into the books