He is considered to be the greatest mathematician of antiquity and made his greatest contributions in geometry (Archimedes of Syracuse. ... On plane equilibriums, shows the fundamentals of mechanics using geometry. In this book are theorems he discovered for the center of gravity of plane figures. ... He tells how he was in the habit of sending them statements of his latest theorems, but without giving proofs. ... Archimedes considered these to be amusements in geometry. ...

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I was enrolled in a geometry class. ... Hathaway, my teacher was scolding me for not working hard enough to understand theorems. ... The concepts of geometry were just too foreign and abstract. ... Of course now I understand that if I could have made the correlation between the shapes and theories in geometry to the building and bridges and engineering concepts of everyday I might have been able to actual remember something about a 90 degree triangle other than the name. ...

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A young man who lived a brilliant, and tragically brief existence, he has been given a long list of titles. Many have seen him as a revolutionary, a lover, a romantic. His exceptional work earned him the label of genius, while his impetuous personality has caused others to think him a fool. Through ...

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