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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Additionally, this period coincided with important mathematical advancements, such as Archimedes‘ applied mathematics and ...

Additionally, this period coincided with important mathematical advancements, such as Archimedes‘ applied mathematics and ...

π is one of the fundamental constants of mathematics: the ratio of a ... Using some basic geometry and trigonometry, Archimedes observed that the length of each of the sides of the inscribed ...

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 ...

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 ...