If you think of Archimedes' "Eureka" moment, you're probably picturing a man in a bathtub, right? In reality, the story is far more complex than that. Armand D'Angour tells the story of Archimedes' ...

On stepping into his bath and realizing that its rising water level showed a way to measure the volume of his king’s crown to determine if it was pure gold, the mathematician Archimedes famously ...

Archimedes was possibly the world's greatest scientist — at least the greatest in the classical age. He was a physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor and engineer. Many of his inventions, ...

Sudden bursts of insight that, with no warning, provide unexpected, novel solutions to thorny problems are the stuff of legend. Consider Archimedes, the great ancient Greek mathematician and scientist ...

Don’t worry about the math – just let the story told by authors Reviel Netz and William Noel take you. ‘The Archimedes Codex’ is an insider tale about the effort to save the earliest found work by the ...

He ran naked through the streets yelling “Eureka.” He was the greatest thinker of ancient times. Now Archimedes is at the Huntington, with ancient wisdom and a new puzzle. “Lost and Found: The Secrets ...