Claudius Ptolemy was a Greek mathematician, astronomer and geographer who lived in the Egyptian city of Alexandria while ...

Greek mathematician Stefanos Aretakis, associate professor at University of Toronto, is known for his groundbreaking work on black holes.

Greek mathematics is considered one of the great intellectual achievements of antiquity. It has been decisive to the academic and cultural development of Western civilization. The three Roman ...

A 12-year-old school boy in Canada has created a working death ray based on the model by ancient Greek mathematician ...

Add zero and one to get one, one and one to get two, one and two to get three, two and three to get five. Most of us know ...

It is widely accepted that Greeks played a major role in the development of mathematics in ancient times. Although more contemporary Greek mathematicians may not be as famous as Pythagoras ...

Mathematicians just found a way to simplify one of the three classical problems in Greek mathematics, dating back thousands of years: “squaring the circle,” or constructing a square with the ...

The new discovery of two scientific treatises by Apollonius, the ancient Greek mathematician known as the “Great Geometer”, falls firmly into the latter category. Brought to the University of ...