Archimedes
Everyone knows
The great Archimedes
One of the leading scientists
Of the classical antiquity
The area of a circle
Equals pi r squared
Archimedes also discovered
He approximated pi
Better than anyone had
And exponentiated numbers
So you didn’t have to add
His ideas were useful
They weren’t just theories
Explaining the lever
And compound pulleys
He used a method
Now called exhaustion
That gave him area
And gave us integration
Give him a place to stand
He’ll invent anything
He’ll move the earth
Create simple machines
The screw, the pulley
The catapult and heat ray
Archimedes did it
And nothing got in his way
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