287 BC - 212 BC
Archimedes of Syracuse (; c. 287 – c. 212 BC) was a Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor from the ancient city of Syracuse in Sicily. Although few details of his life are known, he is regarded as one of the leading scientists in classical antiquity. Considered the greatest mathematician of ancient history, and one of the greatest of all time, Archimedes anticipated modern calculus and analysis by applying the concept of the infinitely small and the method of exhaustion to derive and rigorously prove a range of geometrical theorems. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Archimedes has received more than 8,100,981 page views. His biography is available in 173 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 166 in 2019). Archimedes is the most popular mathematician, the 6th most popular biography from Italy (up from 7th in 2019) and the most popular Italian Mathematician.
Archimedes is most famous for discovering the law of buoyancy and inventing the screw pump.
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Among mathematicians, Archimedes ranks 1 out of 823. After him are Blaise Pascal, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi, Leonhard Euler, Omar Khayyam, Euclid, Hypatia, Bertrand Russell, Al-Biruni, and Bernhard Riemann.
287 BC - 212 BC
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1623 - 1662
HPI: 88.71
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1777 - 1855
HPI: 87.89
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1646 - 1716
HPI: 85.38
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780 - 850
HPI: 85.05
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1707 - 1783
HPI: 84.57
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1048 - 1131
HPI: 83.59
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350 BC - 240 BC
HPI: 83.48
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350 - 415
HPI: 81.91
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1872 - 1970
HPI: 79.79
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973 - 1048
HPI: 79.68
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1826 - 1866
HPI: 79.62
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Among people born in 287 BC, Archimedes ranks 1. Among people deceased in 212 BC, Archimedes ranks 1. After him are Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus and Xerxes of Armenia.
287 BC - 212 BC
HPI: 91.69
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300 BC - 212 BC
HPI: 54.86
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300 BC - 212 BC
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Among people born in Italy, Archimedes ranks 6 out of 4,668. Before him are Leonardo da Vinci (1452), Marco Polo (1254), Galileo Galilei (1564), Christopher Columbus (1451), and Julius Caesar (-100). After him are Michelangelo (1475), Dante Alighieri (1265), Augustus (-63), Raphael (1483), Antonio Vivaldi (1678), and Niccolò Machiavelli (1469).
1452 - 1519
HPI: 96.48
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1254 - 1324
HPI: 94.60
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1564 - 1642
HPI: 94.55
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1451 - 1506
HPI: 93.18
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100 BC - 44 BC
HPI: 92.63
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287 BC - 212 BC
HPI: 91.69
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1475 - 1564
HPI: 91.26
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1265 - 1321
HPI: 90.51
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63 BC - 14
HPI: 89.71
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1483 - 1520
HPI: 88.70
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1678 - 1741
HPI: 88.31
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1469 - 1527
HPI: 88.12
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Among mathematicians born in Italy, Archimedes ranks 1. After him are Fibonacci (1170), Joseph-Louis Lagrange (1736), Luca Pacioli (1445), Gerolamo Cardano (1501), Archytas (-428), Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718), Philolaus (-470), Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia (1499), Giuseppe Peano (1858), Bonaventura Cavalieri (1598), and Lodovico Ferrari (1522).
287 BC - 212 BC
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1170 - 1240
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1736 - 1813
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1445 - 1517
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1501 - 1576
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428 BC - 347 BC
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1718 - 1799
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470 BC - 390 BC
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1499 - 1557
HPI: 68.36
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1858 - 1932
HPI: 67.42
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1598 - 1647
HPI: 66.56
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1522 - 1565
HPI: 64.60
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