Cheikh Anta Diop on the Contributions of Africa to Mathematics Archimedes is generally considered to be the greatest mathematician of antiquity and one of the greatest of all time. Archimedes, a Greek who studied his craft in Alexandria, Egypt, lived from 287 BC – c. 212 BC., and is credited with (1) discovering the area and tangents to the curve traced by a point moving with uniform speed along a straight line which is revolving...