an estimate for the value of pi. Archimedes was obsessed with math, often getting lost in his work and forgetting to eat. Legend has it he discovered his principle of buoyancy while taking a bath.

Happy Pi Day! It's March 14 ... already moving us closer to 3.14. Archimedes, through some further clever geometry, figured out how to estimate the perimeters for polygons with twice as many ...

Archimedes of Syracuse was one of the ... and volume of geometric figures. Also derives estimate for the value of pi; discovers the principle of buoyancy; and creates a system capable of ...

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 ...