250 b.C.
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in Alexandria
Archimedes received his formal education in Alexandria, Egypt which at the time was considered to be the 'intellectual center' of the world. When he completed his formal studies in Alexandria, he returned and stayed in Syracuse for the rest of his life.
According to Pappus of Alexandria, Archimedes' work on levers caused him to remark: "Give me a place to stand on, and I will move the Earth." Plutarch describes how Archimedes designed block-and-tackle pulley systems, allowing sailors to use the principle of leverage to lift objects that would otherwise have been too heavy to move.
I don't know all of them, but i know that you have to include euclid, Einstein, Aristotle, and Plato _____________________________________________________________________________________________ The ten most important mathematicians of the ancient Greece were: Thales of Miletus, Pythagoras of Samos, Eratosthenes, Zeno of Elea, Archimedes of Syracuse, Apollonius of Perga, Euclid, Hero of Alexandria, Hypatia of Alexandria [the first female mathematician], Pappus of Alexandria
One of the things that Archimedes did not do is that Archimedes did not write Elements of Geometry.