Archimedes

 Archimedes is considered one of the three most important mathematicians in history. * Archimedes (287? BC - 212? BC) was Greek from the city of Syracuse on the island of Sicily. 

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Archimedes' and His Spiral @ NRICH, Kids Magazine,

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Februrary 2: Scroll down to the word "EUREKA!"

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Archimedes Bathtub Experiment For Floating and

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Measuring

 

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Archimedes @ Drexel University

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Archimedes @ School of Mathematics and Statistics,

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University of St. Andrews, Scotland

 

* The other two are Sir Isaac Newton (English 1643-1727)  and Carl Friedrich Gauss (German 1777-1855).

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