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289 BCE
Who is Archimedes?
The most-famous mathematician and inventor in ancient Greece. He was the son of an astronomer and mathematician named Phidias. Some maintain that he belonged to the nobility of Syracuse, and that his family was in some way related to that of Hiero II, King of Syracuse. -
212 BCE
What is Archimedes's legacy?
Archimedes is especially important for his discovery of the relation between the surface and volume of a sphere and its circumscribing cylinder. -
211 BCE
Archimedes' Inventions
Archimedes invented many things, those of which including the Architonnerre, the Claw of Archimedes, and Archimedes' Screw. -
270
What did Archimedes do?
Archimedes studied in Alexandria, and returned to Syracuse and pursued a life of invention. He discovered the displacement of water in a bathtub, which led to hydrostatics. He also did work in integral calculus and worked on pi. -
Who is Pascal?
Blaise Pascal was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Christian philosopher. He was a child prodigy who was educated by his father, a tax collector in Rouen. -
What did Pascal do?
He was a French Scientist who discovered a useful property of fluids. According to Pascal's principal, pressure applied to a fluid is transmitted throughout the fluid. -
What is Pascal's Legacy Today?
They remain Pascal’s best known legacy, and he is usually remembered today as one of the most important authors of the French Classical Period and one of the greatest masters of French prose, much more than for his contributions to mathematics. http://www.storyofmathematics.com/17th_pascal.html -
Who is Bernoulli?
Daniel Bernoulli (1700-1782) was a Swiss scientist who studied the properties of moving Fluids such as water and air. He published his discovery in 1738. -
What did Bernoulli do?
He discovered Bernoulli's principle. which is the increase in the speed of a fluid occurs simultaneously with a decrease in pressure or a decrease in the fluid's potential energy. -
What is Bernoulli's legacy?
Daniel Bernoulli was greatly honored for his great contributions to physics and mathematics. He was even elected to be a member of several leading scientific societies in St. Petersburg, Paris, Berlin, London, Bologna, Mannheim, Bern Zurich and Turin. However, he lost his interest in the field due to his strife with his dad. On March 17, 1782, he died at the age of 82. http://totallyhistory.com/daniel-bernoulli/
