Archimedes Archimedes was a Greek mathematician and scientist. He was born in Syracuse, Sicily in the year 287 B.C. He was educated in Alexandria, Egypt. Due to the lack of information about Greek mathematics, many Greek mathematicians and their works are hardly known. Archimedes is the exception. ...

The History of Pi A little known verse in the bible reads "And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other; it was round all about, and his height was five cubits; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it about(I Kings 7, 23)." This passage from the bible demonstrates the anc...

Pi is the mathematical term for the number 3.141592654 and is probably the most talked-about number in mathematics. The computation of pi is virtually the only topic from the most ancient stratum of mathematics that is still of serious interest to modern mathematics research (Berggren 6). How can a...