March 14 is Pi Day in the US, as the date matches the first three digits of the famous number ... Ancient mathematicians like the Greek Archimedes used clever geometry tricks to come up with ...

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 ...

Archimedes was well known for his inventions and scientific discoveries. The most famous of these were the Archimedes' Screw (a device for raising water that is still used in crop irrigation and ...

This short film is ideally suited to introducing students to the significant achievements of Archimedes. It could set the scene for a project on this or other famous historical scientists.

Archimedes was a font of both mathematical insight and smart quotes as well as the hero of some really great stories. (One credits him with the invention of the death ray--actually an array of ...