Atmospheric pressure archimedes biography

Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – 212 BC)

For other uses, see Archimedes (disambiguation).

Archimedes of Syracuse^[a] (AR-kim-EE-deez;^[2]c. 287 – c. 212 BC) was an Ancient Greekmathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor from the ancient city of Syracuse in Sicily.^[3] Although few details of his life are known, he is considered one of the leading scientists in classical antiquity.

Regarded as the greatest mathematician of ancient history, and one of the greatest of all time,^[4] Archimedes anticipated modern calculus and analysis by applying the concept of the infinitely small and the method of exhaustion to derive and rigorously prove a range of geometricaltheorems.^[5][6][7] These include the area of a circle, the surface area and volume of a sphere, the area of an ellipse, the area under a parabola, the volume of a segment of a paraboloid of revolutio