Archimedes

Archimedes lived in Syracuse, a Greek city on the island of Sicily, and may have studied in Alexandria in Egypt. He was the greatest mathematician of the ancient world. He found ways to calculate the areas and volumes of curved shapes, estimated the value of pi, and was so proud of proving that a sphere has two-thirds the volume of the cylinder around it that he asked for this figure to be carved on his tomb. He explained the law of the lever, reportedly saying that with a place to stand he could move the Earth, and the principle of buoyancy; a later story says he discovered it in his bath and ran through the streets shouting eureka, meaning I have found it. He is credited with a water-raising screw still used today. When the Romans besieged Syracuse, his machines, including cranes that lifted ships out of the water, held them off for about two years. When the city fell in 212 BC, he was killed by a Roman soldier, by tradition while working on a geometry problem.

Archimedes is also an author in the library: author page and works.

Faith: Faith not well documented. Source: Wikipedia

See also: Plutarch's Life of Marcellus