Ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes is believed to have built a death ray that was used to burn enemy ships. A teenager ...

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

Pi, represented by the symbol π, is one of the most famous and important constants in mathematics. It is defined as the ratio ...

this one starts in an Ancient Greek colony – although today we’d consider it part of Italy. Archimedes of Syracuse was born ...

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 ...

The globe seen on Joseph Renier’s medal illustrates the theme of the meeting, “The Engineer and the World of Science,” while the entire composition evokes the Greek mathematician Archimedes, who ...

The semiregular convex polyhedra include thirteen solids associated with another ancient mathematician, Archimedes. He lived after Euclid and worked in Syracuse on the Mediterranean island of Sicily.

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

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Alan Turing was one of the most influential British figures of the 20th century. In 1936, Turing invented the computer as part of his attempt to solve a fiendish puzzle known as the ...