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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Archimedes lived in Syracuse, Sicily, around 287–212 BC, and turned geometry into a weapon of precision. He applied infinitesimals and the method of exhaustion to prove theorems on areas and volumes — circle, sphere, ellipse, parabola, paraboloid, hyperboloid, spiral — and devised a system for expressing numbers too large for Greek notation. He was among the first to press mathematics into the physical world: the law of the lever, the principle of buoyancy, the concept of center of gravity. He built a screw pump, compound pulleys, war machines to defend his city, and possibly a planetarium prefiguring the Antikythera mechanism. When Roman soldiers breached Syracuse during the siege, one killed him despite orders to spare him. Cicero later found his tomb marked by a sphere and cylinder, the proof Archimedes wanted remembered. His mathematical writings stayed obscure for centuries — compiled in Byzantine Constantinople around 530 AD, translated into Arabic in the ninth century and Latin in the twelfth — until they surfaced again during the Renaissance and fed the Scientific Revolution.