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Last time, we met Eudoxus of Canitis, who developed the method of exhaustion and the theory of proportions,

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rigorous techniques for handling infinity and irrational numbers that wouldn't be improved for over two millennia.

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Welcome back to Men of Mathematics.

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Today, we meet the man who took Eudoxus' methods and pushed them to their absolute limits.

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Archimedes of Syracuse

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The greatest scientist of the ancient world