1. By Leah Crenshaw
archimedes

2. Biography Archimedes was born in 287 BC.
He lived his life in Syracuse, Sicily.
He was a famous mathematician.
He lived in service of the king of Sicily.
He died during the Siege of Syracuse in 211 BC.

3. Major Works The Quadrature of the Parabola On Floating Bodies
On The Equilibrium of Planes
The Sand Reckoner
On the Sphere and the Cylinder
The Method of Mechanical Theorems
On Conoids and Spheroids
On the Measurement of a Circle

4. Contributions to geometry
Volume of an Irregular Shape
Sphere’s Volume in Relation to a Cylinder
Hydrostatics
Archimedes Screw

5. Archimedes was assigned to figure out how much gold was in the king’s crown
He needed to know how to find the volume without melting it
As he got into the bath one day, he saw the water splash over the edges of the bath and suddenly understood how to do it.
He reportedly ran through the town wearing nothing and shouting “Eureka!” which means “I have found it!”

6. The Siege of Syracuse
In the year 211 BC Syracucse was besieged and eventually invaded
As soldiers ran through the city, killing everyone they saw, a soldier came upon Archimedes.
He was drawing circles in the sand and staring intently at them.
When he saw the soldier come near to his drawing he said “Don’t disturb my circles.”
The soldier, enraged, drew his sword and killed him.

7. The End