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Archimedes Life And Accomplishments

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Through this documentary, you learn about Archimedes writing and his creations and how he changed and shaped math today. Archimedes writings started in 3rd century B.C. in Egypt, and has changed our modern science life today. He was known to be doing math arithmetics 24/7, however he was not only focusing on math, he was an inventor as well. He was most known for the weapons of war, nonetheless he discovered many math arithmetics. Archimedes invented pi, using straight lines to find the value of the circle, he first drew triangles in the circle and then a hexagon. He continues to cut the triangles in half, creating a 12 sided figure, and eventually he got up to 98 sides. At the point he realized that the radius fits around the circumference,

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