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was a Greek mathematician and scientist. He was born in Syracuse, Sicily in the year 287 B.C. He was educated in Alexandria, Egypt. Due to the lack of information about Greek mathematics, many Greek mathematicians and their works are hardly known. is the exception. was very preoccupied with mathematics. For instance, he often forgot to eat ...

Part two of term paper
... an explanation of this concept, be engraved on his grave. also gave a method for approximating pi. He was able to estimate the value of pi between 3 10/71 and 3 1/7. Math wasn’t as sophisticated enough to find out the exact pi (3.14). was finding square roots and he found a method based on the Greek myriad for representing numbers as large as 1 followed by 80 million billion zeros. One of accomplishments was his creation of the lever and pulley system. proved his theory of the lever and p ...