Sener has since earned multiple medals for his attempt to bring the ancient device to life. In his view, he as shown that ...

Greek mathematician Archimedes of Syracuse calculated the infinite mathematical concept pi in the 200s BCE, which we celebrate annually on March 14, or Pi Day.© Getty Images ...

March 14 — a day you’re more likely than most others to eat — or throw — a pie and get a reduced price on your pizza. It’s all in celebration of pi (Greek letter π), the mathematical constant and ...

The Palimpsest, a writing of Archimedes once thought lost to history, has been revealed through the advanced use of a ...

Thousands of years ago, Ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes posited that a death ray could be created to harness the power of the Sun. Now, a 13-year-old student in Canada has put the ancient ...

In 1907, Johan Ludvig Heiberg discovered something unexpected in a Byzantine prayer book. Beneath the prayers, in faded lettering, he recognized the words of Archimedes. The book held several lost ...

Using a series of crude estimates, the ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes worked out the approximate number of grains of sand that could fill the universe; philosopher Anaximander introduced ...

After centuries of using various shapes to try to get the correct number for Pi (π), Greek mathematician, Archimedes, took a strategic approach to calculate the circumference of a shape that has ...