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Archimedes anticipated modern calculus and analysis by applying the concept of the infinitesimals and the method of exhaustion to derive and rigorously prove many geometrical theorems, including the area of a circle, the surface area and volume of a sphere, the area of an ellipse, the area under a parabola, the volume of a segment of a paraboloid of revolution, the volume of a segment of a hyperboloid of revolution, and the area of a spiral.","summary_more":[],"facts":[{"key":"birthplace","label":"Place of birth","values":[{"text":"Syracuse","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4420718"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8739#P19"}},{"key":"deathplace","label":"Place of death","values":[{"text":"Syracuse","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4420718"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8739#P20"}},{"key":"citizenship","label":"Citizenship","values":[{"text":"Syracuse","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4420718"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8739#P27"}},{"key":"occupation","label":"Occupation","values":[{"text":"mathematician","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q170790"},{"text":"physicist","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q169470"},{"text":"astronomer","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11063"},{"text":"inventor","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q205375"},{"text":"military engineer","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q151197"},{"text":"philosopher","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4964182"}],"source":{"label":"Wikidata","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8739#P106"}}],"office":null,"sections":[],"cited":[],"cited_from":null,"videos":[],"last_reviewed":null,"organizations":[],"same_as":["https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes","https://ne.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%86%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AE%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%9C","https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8739"],"faq":[],"related":[{"name":"Alfred Nobel","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/alfred-nobel"},{"name":"André-Marie Ampère","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/andre-marie-ampere"},{"name":"Antoine de Saint-Exupéry","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/antoine-de-saint-exupery"},{"name":"Christiaan Huygens","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/christiaan-huygens"},{"name":"James Clerk Maxwell","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/james-clerk-maxwell"},{"name":"James Watt","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/james-watt"},{"name":"Johannes Kepler","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/johannes-kepler"},{"name":"L. 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This page's text is shared under the same licence. Facts from Wikidata (CC0). Image: Domenico-Fetti Archimedes 1620.jpg — Domenico Fetti, Public domain.","cite":"\"Archimedes\". DigiNepal. Last updated 2 November 2026. https://diginpl.com/people/archimedes. Retrieved 5 November 2026.","date_modified":"2026-11-02T06:29:03Z","facts_checked":"2026-11-05","alternates":{"html":"https://diginpl.com/people/archimedes","en":"https://diginpl.com/people/archimedes","ne":"https://diginpl.com/people/archimedes?lang=ne"}}