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

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 ...

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 ...

Although many sought to find it, the calculation of pi, which is also expressed by the fraction 22/7, is commonly credited to ...

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

Archimedes may be best known for rising ... a concept long considered too problematic for ancient Greek mathematicians to grasp. Our modern understanding of it was refined by Issac Newton and ...

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 ...

EXPLANATION: The Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor from the ancient city of Syracuse in Sicily, Archimedes of Syracuse was a leading scientist in classical antiquity.

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 ...