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Archimedes
Archimedes of Syracuse (c. 287-212 BC) was the ancient world’s supreme mathematical mind, whose pioneering use of **infinitesimals** and **exhaustion methods** foreshadowed modern calculus and still powers everything from satellite orbits to medical imaging.
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Geometry is a branch of mathematics concerned with properties of space such as the distance, shape, size, and relative position of figures. Geometry is, along with arithmetic, one of the oldest branches of mathematics. A mathematician who works in th