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 ...

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 ...

With it you can call down an orbital strike that uses the power of Archimedes II's orbital laser to send a concentrated beam of energy to fall from sky and detonate with a thunderous sound.

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.

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 ...