Pi Day is Friday, March 14. The relatively new holiday is a celebration of the mathematical calculation pi, or the infinite number representing the constant ratio of a circle’s circumference to its ...

Examines ancient numeral systems, Babylonian and Egyptian mathematics, Pythagorean mathematics, duplication, trisection, and quadrature, Euclid's elements and Greek mathematics after Euclid, Hindu and ...

How many grains of sand would it take to fill the universe? This is a problem that the Greek mathematician Archimedes tried to solve in the third century B.C. In this activity, you get to try ...

Here's the deal; there was this Greek guy named Pythagoras, who lived over 2,000 years ago during the sixth century B.C.E. Pythagoras spent a lot of time thinking about math, astronomy ...

Claudius Ptolemy was a Greek mathematician, astronomer and geographer who lived in the Egyptian city of Alexandria while under the rule of the Roman Empire. Much of medieval astronomy and ...

Euclid was one of the first great Greek mathematicians. In his classic "Elements", Euclid laid the framework for our formal understanding of geometry. While earlier Greek philosophers, like the ...