Archimedes is humble because he doesn't brag about his amazing ideas, intellect, and inventions. One example is, “ According to Plutarch (c. 46–119 C.E.), Archimedes had so low an opinion of the kind of practical invention at which he excelled and to which he owed his contemporary fame that he left no written work on such subjects.” From this, you could conclude Archimedes was humble because he wasn't bragging or boasting about his intellect by writing about his works, like many mathematicians did at the time. Another great example of Archimedes’ humbleness is “Archimedes did not record the many mechanical inventions he made at the request of King Hieron or simply for his own amusement, presumably because he considered them of little importance
