Ancient Greece mathematician Archimedes believed a death ray was plausible, so a middle school student from Canada put the concept to the test. Brenden Sener of Ontario won multiple medals for his ...

had long been of interest to the ancient Greeks, who strove for precise mathematical proportions in their architecture, music, and other art forms. In Archimedes' day, close approximations of pi ...

A scholar who discovered that, contrary to belief, the ancient Greeks, through the work of Archimedes, had actually toyed with infinitely large sets, Netz knows a thing or two about mathematical ...

Ancient Greek stories are still told today ... Dom: He did all of this over 2000 years ago. Dick: Archimedes was a Greek guy with a great beard. Born a ridiculously long time ago around the ...

Ancient Greek thinkers made big discoveries ... Dom: He did all of this over 2000 years ago. Dick: Archimedes was a Greek guy with a great beard. Born a ridiculously long time ago around the ...

Diophantus of Alexandria revolutionized algebra with Arithmetica, pioneering symbolic notation and abstract number theory.

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...