Last time, we met Eudoxus of Canitis, who developed the method of exhaustion and the theory of proportions,
rigorous techniques for handling infinity and irrational numbers that wouldn't be improved for over two millennia.
Welcome back to Men of Mathematics.
Today, we meet the man who took Eudoxus' methods and pushed them to their absolute limits.
Archimedes of Syracuse
The greatest scientist of the ancient world