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Tell me about Archimedes Anonymous Thu Jan 11 00:45:02 2018 No.9428924 [Reply] [Original]

what is about him that he is so admired by mathematicians

is really this demi-god genius people describe him as?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 11 03:37:40 2018 No.9429148 >>9428924 literal god, you disrespectful dog

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 11 05:45:47 2018 No.9429238 >>9428924 Kneel before his majesty you insignificant worm.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 11 06:05:15 2018 No.9429277 >>9428924 He was a first rate genius, and he is the prism thru which much of the mathematical knowledge of the first 3,000 years of history flows to us, so we tend to overstate his contributions. But he was truly prodigious by any metric.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 11 07:15:45 2018 No.9429372 >>9428924 He found the first couple of digits of pi I believe, he invented the Archimedean screw, buoyancy principle, and that's all I've got

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 11 07:25:03 2018 No.9429381 >>9428924 He single handedly invented calculus thousands of years ago.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 11 09:33:30 2018 No.9429466 he is penultimate ancient creator tier

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 11 10:52:25 2018 No.9429591 my lord

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 11 11:02:11 2018 No.9429609 >>9429381 this so fucking much God himself

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 11 11:48:29 2018 No.9429692 >>9428924 Newton's definition of tangent line is based on Big A's definition.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 11 21:04:22 2018 No.9431129 But didn’t Archimedes steal calculus from India?

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 11 22:27:56 2018 No.9431252 >>9431129 WE

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 11 22:29:50 2018 No.9431257 >>9431252 SHOW

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