Archimedes was a brilliant ancient Greek mathematician and inventor. He made many important discoveries in math and science, ...

including one that contained two unique works by Archimedes, unquestionably the greatest mathematician of antiquity. Sold at auction in 1998, it has since been the subject of a privately funded ...

Some minds, like that of third century B.C mathematician, astronomer, and inventor Archimedes of Syracuse, inadvertently left a blueprint that modern marvels picked up on and adopted into their ...

Archimedes was interested in the fact that ... NOVA: How did Georg Cantor's set theory refine mathematicians' thinking about infinity? Netz: Well, the essence of the calculus is that you deal ...

IT is scarcely necessary to introduce the reader to an author so well known and so distinguished for his writings upon Greek mathematics. Among those who are fortunate enough to have learnt ...

Around 250 B.C., the Greek mathematician Archimedes calculated the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. A precise determination of pi, as we know this ratio today, had long been of ...

Euclid was one of the first great Greek mathematicians. In his classic "Elements", Euclid laid the framework for our formal understanding of geometry. While earlier Greek philosophers, like the ...

Named for its inventor, the Greek mathematician Archimedes (237-212 BCE), the Archimedes screw is a device for raising water. Essentially, it is a large screw, open at both ends and encased lengthwise ...

This story appears in the March 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Technically it’s ancient technology. But now the two-millennia-old principle of the Greek mathematician Archimedes has ...

Archimedes' method of approximating π with polygons, and similar techniques developed in China and India, would be the dominant way mathematicians would approach the calculation of the digits π ...

Legends about the ingenuity of the Greek inventor and mathematician Archimedes were so powerful that for centuries, many scholars have believed he was able to use mirrors to set Roman ships alight ...

and what mathematics can show us about how life began, and how it might continue. Archimedes calculated Pi to the equivalent of 14 decimal places and today we know its first 1.4 trillion digits.