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.

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 ...

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 ...

How many grains of sand would it take to fill the universe? This is a problem that the Greek mathematician Archimedes tried to solve in the third century B.C. In this activity, you get to try ...

Not only was he a fantastic mathematician and engineer but ... ARCHIMEDES:Why are you in his bath Dom? DICK:'Archimedes was a Greek guy with a great beard. Born a ridiculously long time ago ...

Archimedes was a Greek mathematician, physicist and inventor born sometime around 287 B.C. in the Greek colony of Syracuse in Sicily. He is known to this day for his statement: “Give me a lever ...

While earlier Greek philosophers ... he ran through the streets naked and shouting "Eureka!" As a mathematician, however, Archimedes was able to outdo even his own accomplishments in physics.

Archimedes used inscribed and circumscribed polygons such as these in his approximation of pi. Credit: Public domain Ancient Greek mathematicians, including Pythagoras and his followers ...