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

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.

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 ...

For thousands of years, philosophers have pondered cardinality: knowing “how many.”Using a series of crude estimates, the ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes worked out the approximate ...

The Greek inventor Archimedes supposedly used mirrors to set fire to invading ships. To test the possibility, a middle-school student designed an experiment for his science fair. Using light bulbs and ...

The Greek mathematician Archimedes was the first person known to have shown that the expansion of pi starts with 3.14. He accomplished this by approximating the circumference of a circle by the ...

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 ...

With the number 3.1418, Archimedes was able to calculate the circumference of a circle, Britannica states. It wasn’t until 1706 the Pi (π) symbol was created by British mathematician William Jones.