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"…to those who have read and understood the very subtle inventions of this divine man in his own writings; from which one most clearly realizes how inferior all other minds are to Archimedes’…” Galileo

"“He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times.” Leibniz

>> No.10421106

what is his essential reading

>> No.10421205

>>10421106
He invented something about volume of water in his bath or some shit like that

>> No.10421214

>>10421104
>A smart grad student could teach Fourier new tricks, but not even the beat mathematician alive could teach Archimedes how to think better
Or something like that
>>10421106
The quadrature of the parabola
The sand reckoner

>> No.10421224

>>10421104
>Galileo
Cringe.
>Apollonius
Show off blow hard

>> No.10421227
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10421227

>>10421104
>*blocks your path*

>> No.10421230

>>10421104
It's just exaggeration. There's no way he's smarter than today's mathematicians lol

>> No.10421249

>>10421106
He invented calculus before it was cool

>> No.10421273

>godel
>leibniz
>euler
>newton
>einstein
>darwin
>tyson
>gauss
>dawkins
>neitzche
>shakespeare
>da vinci
>descartes

>> No.10421281

>>10421273
>>golel
>>lolibniz
>>eulel
>>newtoon
>>ein(((stein)))
>>darloss
>>tyrone
>>gauβ
>>fedora
>>neitzshit
>>milkshakes' pear
>>da 20
>>put it on the trash

>> No.10421291

>>10421281
>descartes
>put it in the trash

that one dosent even make sense

>> No.10421298

>>10421291
Doesn't make sense in english

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10421304

phenotybe.

>> No.10421312
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>>10421291
Old meme

>> No.10421357

>>10421230
he was a super genius to achieve what he did all that time ago. watch his proof of area of a sphere using law of lever.

>> No.10421507

This Greek bitch ain't got shit on imhotep

>> No.10422508

>>10421507
lol imhotep has no mathematical accomplishments...and your trying to compare him to the greatest ancient mathematician ever

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imhotep

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>> No.10422715

>>10421507
WE

>> No.10424024

Newton


> all

>> No.10424219

>>10421357
It is a clever trick but in no way comparable to the depth of modern mathematics

>> No.10424226

>>10421104
Like all ancient greeks he's overrated as fuck. Seriously, northern europeans and their philhellenism sucks big time.

>> No.10424240

>>10421507
DESPITE

>> No.10424287

>diogenes not mentioned