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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Archimedes was obsessed with mathematics. He would become so involved ... shouting "Eureka!" (Greek for "I have found it!"). When the Romans invaded Syracuse in 214 B.C., Archimedes invented ...

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 ...