He is considered to be the greatest mathematician of antiquity and made his greatest contributions in geometry (Archimedes of Syracuse. ... He was often so into his geometry that his servants would force him to get into a bathtub and, even while his servants anointed him with oils and perfumes, he would try to draw geometric diagrams on his body in the oil on his skin. ... On plane equilibriums, shows the fundamentals of mechanics using geometry. ... He tells how he was in the habit of sending them statements of his latest theorems, but without giving proofs. ... Archimedes considered thes...

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Later in life he would go back to that school and lecture there in his vast findings in the very thing that they thought he had lack of interest in: Geometry. ... It was less cost with fire proof construction. ...

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The Greek mathematician Euclid expressed this ideal ratio in his Elements, a book on geometry which is said to be the second most popular book of all time, after the Bible. ... Proof of this is that the playwright Aristophanes portrays an average, Athenian man who asks his son to sing a particular forty-year-old epinician poem composed by Simonides. ...

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