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 ...

The thousand-year-old manuscript contains the earliest surviving writings by Archimedes, a Greek thinker who is regarded as the greatest mathematician of antiquity. The story of the 174-page ...

Brenden Sener admits there are challenges to his project but argues that the ancient descriptions could still be accurate.

Although many sought to find it, the calculation of pi, which is also expressed by the fraction 22/7, is commonly credited to Greek mathematician Archimedes of Syracuse more than 2,200 years ago.

Archimedes (c. 287-212 BC) Archimedes was possibly the greatest mathematician of all time. He's best known for his contributions to our early understanding of physics by figuring out how levers ...

Archimedes was celebrated in his own time, as well as ours, for his practical applications of mathematics and physics. The screw that he invented still moves water uphill, and the catapults and ...

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.

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:No. Then we'd have nothing to eat ... This short animated film is from the BBC Teach series, Hypatia's Mathematical Maze. Depending on your lesson’s focus, you may wish to pause ...