Archimedes Archimedes 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. Archimedes is the exception. ...

"Eureka, Eureka, Eureka"! I've found it," screamed Archimedes as he was running through the streets of Sicily in his birthday suit. Archimedes had finally discovered volume. After about ten years of drawing math diagrams in the sand and dirt, Archimedes had finally discovered vo...