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Archimedes, an Epic card
Archimedes of Syracuse was an Ancient Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor from the city of Syracuse in Sicily.
- Rarity
- Epic
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 82
- DEF
- 93
- Power
- 175
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 660,000
Ranked #882 of 3,000 cards by power (ATK + DEF) in the base set.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Although few details of his life are known, based on his surviving work, he is considered one of the leading scientists in classical antiquity, and one of the greatest mathematicians of all time.
- Archimedes anticipated modern calculus and analysis by applying the concept of the infinitesimals and the method of exhaustion to derive and rigorously prove many geometrical theorems, including the area of a circle, the surface area and volume of a sphere, the area of an ellipse, the area under a parabola, the volume of a segment of a paraboloid of revolution, the volume of a segment of a…
- Archimedes' other mathematical achievements include deriving an approximation of pi, defining and investigating the Archimedean spiral, and devising a system using exponentiation for expressing very large numbers.
Why it is Epic
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Archimedes article was read about 660,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 82 and blocks with 93: each hit it takes is cut by 37 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Archimedes (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Domenico Fetti, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.







