You Can Thank Ancient Greek Mathematician Archimedes for Your Pi Day Celebration

Greek mathematician Archimedes of Syracuse calculated the infinite mathematical concept pi in the 200s BCE, which we ...
Greek Reporter

The Transition From Myth to Scientific Thought in Ancient Greece

The transition from mythology to rational, scientific thought in Ancient Greece set the foundation for Western civilization.
The University of Chicago Chronicle

Ian Mueller, scholar of ancient Greek philosophy and math, 1938–2010

Ian Mueller, Professor Emeritus in Philosophy, died suddenly Friday, Aug. 6 at the University of Chicago Medical Center. He was 72. Mueller was a scholar of ancient Greek philosophy of science and the ...
Inverse

How one Ancient Greek thinker revolutionized math — and possibly started a cult

Most people don’t remember math class, but they do remember Pythagoras. Greek philosopher and mathematician, he is credited with one of the handiest formulae any school student could know: A squared ...
Independent Record

Column: Ancient mathematics is eternally true

Most of the science books written two thousand years ago in ancient Greece turned out to be spectacularly wrong. However, ancient discoveries in mathematics remain as true today as they were back then ...