ARCHIMEDES is one of the greatest mathematicians ever — and certainly the most famous of ancient Greece. Many of his discoveries were centuries ahead of their time. The Archimedean Screw ...

March 14 is Pi Day in the US, as the date matches the first three digits of the famous number ... Ancient mathematicians like the Greek Archimedes used clever geometry tricks to come up with ...

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 ...

Marcellus had respect for Archimedes and sent soldiers to get him so he could meet the famous mathematician. According to the Archimedes Palimpsest, he was so focused on solving a mathematical ...