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FROM

CURIOSITY

TO DISCOVERY

WRITTEN BY RABIYA SHAUKAT (1075090), REJOY THOMAS MATHEW
(1084701), & VIOLET SARAH PRINCE (1080030)

Curiosity has sparked human creativity and prosperity for
millennia. You may recognize many of the following people
who put their curiosity to good use, but let’s take a trip down
memory lane and catch up with them.

Archimedes

c. 287 BC — c. 212 BC

A Greek engineer who is regarded as the

greatest mathematician of antiquity. He is
renowned as the “Father of Mathematics”
and is credited with a lot of advances that
are still used today (such as the Archimedes
screw). Archimedes is supposed to have loved
teasing other mathematicians by providing
them the answer to a difficult issue but not
explaining how he arrived at it. He encour-
aged inquisitiveness among his nobles.