Archimedes of Syracuse was one of the greatest mathematicians in history. He was also a great inventor and scientist. Most of what we know about Archimedes today comes from his writings and those ...

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 ...

Known as the Archimedes Palimpsest ... In addition, there are 14 pages of rare commentaries on Aristotle's treatise on the logic of categorization and another 10 pages that record two previously ...

DICK:Why are you in my bath? DOM:I, I, I don't know. DICK:Ladies and gentlemen, we give you, Archimedes. ARCHIMEDES:Why are you in his bath Dom? DICK:'Archimedes was a Greek guy with a great beard.

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 ...

The work of Plato and Aristotle is adequately dealt with, while the longest chapter in the book is assigned to Euclid, Archimedes, and the Alexandrian school. In the period of decline which ...