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ARCHIMEDES IS GOD, LET'S ALL WORSHIP THE GROUND HE WALKS ON!!!!
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ARCHIMEDES WAS SMARTER THAN YOU!!!!!!
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Archimedes was a Sicilian philosopher/mathimatician/architect. He lived from 287BC-212BC. Which made him about 75 when he died a rather unusual death.
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WHY HE WAS SO DAMNED IMPORTANT
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He is known for the Archimedes Principle. This states that any force in water is buoyed up by a force equal to it. This explains why heavy objects float. He also determined that PI is between 3 10/71 and 3 1/7. He also determined that the volume o a sphere is 2/3 the volume of a circumscribed cylinder. Also he was one of the first to apply geometry to mechanics. He used geometric ideas to develop machines like the Archimedes Screw that lifted water and light objects.
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YOU MENTIONED SOMETHING ABOUT HIS STRANGE DEATH, WHAT'S WITH THAT???
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Well, as legend goes, Archimedes was given two pieces of "gold" by a king. However this king had a sneeking suspicion that this was not really gold. So Archimedes figured that if the two were different then one would weigh more than the other. So when he dropped them in water he acidentally fell upon the water displacement theory. Upon this disovery was so doggone excited that he ran through the streets naked screaming EUREKA! Oh yeah and he was later murdered while studying math. NERD ALERT!!!!
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