archimedes used math
 gausss heroes were archimedes and newton and moritz cantor who studied under gauss in the university of gttingen reported that he once remarked in conversation that there had been only three epochmaking mathematicians archimedes newton and eisenstein
 plutarch wrote that archimedes placed his whole affection and ambition in those purer speculations where there can be no reference to the vulgar needs of life though some scholars believe this may be a mischaracterization