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Archimedes

287 BC - 212 BC

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Archimedes of Syracuse ( AR-kih-MEE-deez; c. 287 – c. 212 BC) was an Ancient Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor from the ancient city of Syracuse in Sicily. Although few details of his life are known, based on his surviving work, he is considered one of the leading scientists in classical antiquity, and one of the greatest mathematicians of all time. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Archimedes is the most popular mathematician, the 7th most popular biography from Italy and the most popular Italian Mathematician.

Archimedes is most famous for discovering the law of buoyancy and inventing the screw pump.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Archimedes ranks 1 out of 1,004. After him are Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Blaise Pascal, Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, Euclid, Fibonacci, Ada Lovelace, Leonhard Euler, Omar Khayyam, John Forbes Nash Jr., and Bernhard Riemann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 287 BC, Archimedes ranks 1.  Among people deceased in 212 BC, Archimedes ranks 1. After him are Xerxes of Armenia, and Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus.

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    Archimedes

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    287 BC - 212 BC

    HPI: 93.41

    Rank: 1

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Archimedes ranks 7 out of 5,161. Before him are Leonardo da Vinci (1452), Marco Polo (1254), Galileo Galilei (1564), Christopher Columbus (1451), Julius Caesar (-100), and Michelangelo (1475). After him are Dante Alighieri (1265), Augustus (-63), Antonio Vivaldi (1678), Raphael (1483), Niccolò Machiavelli (1469), and Pope John Paul I (1912).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In Italy

Among mathematicians born in Italy, Archimedes ranks 1. After him are Fibonacci (1170), Joseph-Louis Lagrange (1736), Gerolamo Cardano (1501), Luca Pacioli (1445), Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718), Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia (1499), Archytas (-428), Philolaus (-470), Giuseppe Peano (1858), Bonaventura Cavalieri (1598), and Lodovico Ferrari (1522).

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