Part one of term paper
Few certain details remain about the life of antiquit^s greatest mathematician, . We know he was born in 287 B.C. around Syracuse from a report about 1400 years after the fact. tells about his father, Pheidias, in his book The Sandreckoner. Pheidias was an astronomer, who was famous for being the author of a treatise on the diameters of the ...

Part two of term paper
... said that he was killed by a Roman soldier, who was offended by Achimedes, while the Romans seized Syracuse. had a wide variety of interests, which included encompassing statics, hydrostatics, optics, astronomy, engineering, geometry, and arithmetic. had more stories passed down through history about his clever inventions than his mathematical theorems. This is believed to be so because the average mind of that period would have no interest in the Archimedean spiral, but would pay attention to ...