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Archimedes
[person]
Greek mathematician, born in Syracuse, Sicily (287-212 BCE). Little is known about Archimedes' life, but he is best known for devising the water displacement method of measuring the volume of an irregularly-shaped object (which he possibly conceived of while getting into his bathtub). He is also credited with developing the foundations of integral calculus and mathematical physics.
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