He was the most famous mathematician and inventor of ancient Greece. He was born in Syracuse, Sicily, in 287 BC, where he spent most of his life. He did, however, attend Euclid’s school in Alexandria, Egypt, which was one of the biggest cities of the time.
The translation of many of Archimedes’ works in the sixteenth century contributed greatly to the spread of knowledge of them and influenced the work of the foremost mathematicians and physicists of the next century
– Archimede Quotes –
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
~ Archimedes
Give me a place to stand on, and I will move the Earth.
~ Archimedes
Give me a place to stand, and a lever long enough, and I will move the world.
~ Archimedes
He who knows how to speak, knows also when.”
~ Archimedes
Don’t disturb my circles!
~ Archimedes
Mathematics reveals its secrets only to those who approach it with pure love, for its own beauty.”
~ Archimedes
