the mathematician Archimedes famously shouted “Eureka!” -- Greek for “I have found it!” Only history buffs and math geeks will have the same reaction if they stumble upon “Infinite ...

Perhaps his best-known achievement was his "Eureka" moment, when he discovered the principle of buoyancy. Archimedes lived in Syracuse on the island of Sicily in the third century B.C. At that ...

‘The Archimedes Codex’ is an insider tale about the effort to save the earliest found work by the ancient world’s greatest poet-mathematician. Better-known scientific greats, such as ...