ARCHEMIDES

Archimedes is still considered as the greatest mathematician of all time for his concepts of 'measurement of a circle, quadrature of the parabola and the sand reckoner'. Besides, he was also an engineer, an inventor, a physicist and an astronomer of great potential. He introduced to the world, the famous Archimedes principle which states that when an object is immersed in a fluid, it is buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by the object. Archimedes designed the lever and pulley system and worked out their accurate working equations. “Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth" were his famous words with reference to the application of lever and pulley. It is known that Archimedes died around 212 BC, during the Second Punic War, however the cause of his death still remain obscure. Before his death Archimedes made a queer request that his tombstone be embellished with a sphere contained in the cylinder of smallest possible size and inscribed with the ratio of the cylinder's volume to that of the sphere.